Book description
Fear and Self-Loathing in the City is a practical guide to both
managing the pressures of the workplace and coping with the struggles we
may have in our personal lives. It incorporates simple techniques and
quick solutions to many stressful work-related issues that exist in most
working cultures. This book is crucial for today's workplace. The
current state of the economy, financial disasters and general
instability is having a massive affect on employees. Workers have to
deal with redundancies and the pressures of finding new jobs; the number
of sick days is on the rise; drug use and alcoholism is increasing; and
depression and anxiety are becoming more and more common. Although more
people are seeking help, there is still a stigma in the workplace about
depression, anxiety, and other very real mental illnesses. As a result,
many employees suffer in silence for fear their contemporaries will find
out they are not coping, see it as a sign of weakness and think badly of
them. In this book, Michael Sinclair has taken a lighter approach and
used language common to the workplace with which the reader can
identify. In short, this book aims to remove this stigma about mental
health, and promote a sense of acceptability about seeking help and
resolving problems in a healthy way. The book deals with very current
topics, including: depression, anxiety, alcoholism, sleep deprivation,
and unhealthy lifestyles (e. g. eating habits) amongst many others.
