Are We Living in an Age of Anxiety?
4 min readMar 4, 2022
And, if so, why?
According to all the articles that appear from Google under this enquiry, we most certainly are. Sales of self help books relating to the management of anxiety and sales of anti-anxiety medication (anxiolytics) are both rocketing to record levels. Before the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine, the World Health Organisation estimated a global loss to the economy of 925 billion dollars…