Sweet Distress av Gillian Bridge

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<p>Cutting its way through the media frenzy, <i>Sweet Distress: How our love affair with feelings has fuelled the current mental health crisis (and what we can do about it)</i> puts emotional wellbeing and resilience centre stage.</p><p> Using an approach rooted in no-nonsense logic, author and psycholinguistic consultant Gillian Bridge delves into a range of problems which seem to be most frequently cited as sources of mental distress. These include stress, anxiety, depression, loneliness, body image, eating disorders, social media, substance abuse, behavioural disorders, academic pressures and bullying.</p><p> The author explores how these issues have led to seemingly insurmountable emotional problems and takes a few potshots at some of the things that have contributed to turning life events that may, at other times or in other places, have been little more than nuisances or inconveniences into sources of genuine psychic pain.</p><p> Packed with realistic and effective takeaway strat