Smile Again: Your Recovery from Burnout, Breakdown and Overwhelming Stress - Paperback

by Anna Pinkerton (Author)

If you are the hard worker, the grafter, the dedicated, you are more likely to suffer from burnout and breakdown. You are probably more likely to hide your stress, and try to cope silently. If you're used to leading or managing others, if you're used to having others look up to you and rely on you, you are likely to feel more crippled by shame and despair. Stress related to work has taken on pandemic proportions. Burnout and breakdown literally happens to the best of us. What you are experiencing is a perfectly normal reaction to extreme conditions, and you can find a way out of it. This book offers tools to help you recover quickly and thoroughly. It uses simple, but powerful, images to bypass the part of your brain that is hindered by stress, and help you heal again on a deep subconscious level. Even if you feel you're 'broken', you can absolutely repair. If this sounds like you, then this book will help you smile again. This book will be of interest to readers of the following topics: Couples & family therapy, Medicine & psychology, Counseling, Anxieties & phobias, Stress, Psychology.

Author Biography

I have been a therapist for over 20 years. I have specialized in PTSD since 1994. Now I work with people in public life who have high pressure roles, and who have broken down after one off shocking events or a slow build up of stresses. I wrote How to Smile Again because I didn't want to sit back and shout at the TV and Radio and gasp at outrageous headlines when the media decided to drag someone over the coals when they were struggling to cope. I wanted to stand up and reach out to those people who often have to go underground to suffer their trauma. Their struggle with trauma or mental health is often seen as their demise rather than a struggle to overcome. Sitting back for me meant I colluded with this, and I didn't want to do that. How we treat people in public life is a demonstration to us all that we too may one day face a rupture in our mental health and find ourselves in this unsympathetic atmosphere; whilst trying to recover and sadly some don't make it.