1st Edition

Fear and Self-Loathing in the City A Guide to Keeping Sane in the Square Mile

By Michael Sinclair Copyright 2010
    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    A Note about Clinical Cases in the Book -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Rocking the foundations -- Under the spotlight -- Power cut -- Hot under the collar -- Uncomfortably numb -- Force of habit -- The phantom menace -- The weakest link -- The rise and fall -- Stranger in the room -- A Final Word -- Breathing -- Meditation -- Relaxation -- Useful Contacts

    Biography

    Sinclair, Michael