Brave New Mind

People are under too much stress and facing too many pressing and painful challenges. It's all too much for them. It's no wonder that millions upon millions of people are collapsing psychologically. It isn't that we have an "epidemic of mental disorders," as if a certain mental disorder bug has been going around. It's that people are finding themselves unable to cope with our current moment. It's not as if life hasn't been hard previously. But this is a new hard. We are at staggering levels of loneliness, despair, and overwhelm. For one person, the answer is finding someone to blame. For another person, it is sinking into chronic sadness while going through the motions. We see this collapse everywhere and, as with rising tides and rising temperatures, we are trying not to notice. But we must, if we are to survive. Another sort of clue as to how widespread this crisis is, is the amazing rise of mental disorder self-diagnosing. Millions of people, especially young adults, are latching onto a label to help explain to themselves why they are finding life so hard. "Oh, it's because I have ADHD! That explains it!" Or, "Oh, it's because I'm on the spectrum. That's why I can't cope." This massive self-diagnosing provides us with another clue that people aren't coping. The answer to this epidemic of psychological collapse is not affixing a mental disorder label on a person and handing him or her pills. The answer is the creation, person by person, of a brave new mind that can weather this tidal wave of difficulty. Brave New Mind provides readers with a complete picture of how to acquire the emotional strength and psychological well-being to weather these difficult times.