Richard O'connor

Undoing Perpetual Stress: the Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety and 21stcentury Illness Richard O'connor Reprint edition

Our brains weren?t built for this.

Twenty-first-century life evolves at a breakneck pace?and with it, stress seems to multiply by the day. We work long, harrowing hours. We fret over our families and finances. Our e-mail beeps and our cell phones ring. But our nervous systems were never meant to handle so many stressors. In this groundbreaking book, psychotherapist Richard O?Connor explains how a wide range of common problems?both emotional and physical?are actually side effects of modern life, and how you can undo their damage. Combining expertise with down-to-earth language, Undoing Perpetual Stress explains how you can

• recognize the hidden effects of stress on your brain and body
• understand your inner sanity in conflict with a crazy world
• develop self-control over how you think, act and feel when stressed
• regain a sense of meaning and purpose in your life

You already know how to ?do? stress. With the help of this book, you can undo it, too.