Stressed out? So were the Victorians. | Diseases of Modern Life
We didn’t invent the ‘diseases of modern life’; people in Victorian England worried about anxiety and overwork, too. A leading doctor has warned that the pace of the information age means our brains are subject to as much stress in a single month as our grandparents faced in a lifetime.
Fagged out: overwork and sleeplessness in Victorian …
Apr 17, 2020 · We no longer talk about ‘brain exhaustion’, but contemporary science is increasingly confirming Victorian observations that a lack of sleep …
- Author: Sally Shuttleworth
- Publish Year: 2020
Stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too – but …
Sep 20, 2019 · By the 1860s the twin diseases of modernity – overwork and sleeplessness – became the focus of cultural anxieties. Victorian medical men warned against the dangers of sleeplessness. Drawing on ...
‘A big nebulous, multifaceted concept’: reflections from Victorian ...
Jun 16, 2024 · ‘A big nebulous, multifaceted concept’: reflections from Victorian personal injury lawyers on wellbeing, burnout and vicarious trauma
Employee wellbeing - VPSC
The key findings are for the Victorian public sector. Work-related wellbeing. Overall work-related wellbeing fell in 2021 compared to 2019. Work-related stress. Respondents who experienced …
Research on Victorian anxiety is an FT business book of …
Dec 3, 2019 · But one stands out from the rest: a book based on Oxford research into life and health in the Victorian times. It turns out Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain has a lot to teach us about …
"Work and Madness: Overworked Men and Fears of Degeneration, …
Apr 2, 2019 · It places men at the centre of conversations about lunacy in the nineteenth century, and highlights how the spectre of madness connects to larger conversations about …
Ambition, monomania and the seeds of self-help | BPS
Sep 14, 2022 · Victorian self-help books such as Samuel Smiles's Self-Help, first published in 1859, collected hundreds of these examples of people who worked hard to overcome …
Popular Fiction and the ‘Emotional Turn’: The Case of Women in …
Dec 1, 2010 · In the specific realm of the emotional lives of women living in Victorian and Edwardian Britain, fiction proves a promising source – popular fiction especially.
Navigating the Abyss: Unraveling Burnout Through Victorian Eyes
Greetings, Discerning Readers, on this Day 5 of our 30-day literary soiree. Today, let us embark on a journey through the discerning eyes of Victorian sensibilities, exploring the intricacies of…