Self-help website launches stress management guide, 'Stress and the City'

StressingOut.org launches free illustrated eBook offering advice and information about different forms of stress related to modern lifestyles such as office work, commuting, parenting and financial management. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) April 21, 2011 - Popular self-help website StressingOut.org has released a new eBook entitled "Stress and the City" which covers a number of common triggers for stress, including money worries, workload, problem colleagues and commuting.

It also discusses how these tend to affect us both mentally and physically, and ends with some simple stress-management tips.

StressingOut.org is the joint project of Guy Brandon, a professional counsellor and author, and Oliver Lewis, an online marketing expert and former journalist.

The website deals with both stress and the common and related problems of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem. As well as explaining how these can often be linked to chronic stress, it offers useful CBT strategies and other counselling techniques for overcoming them.

The guide's launch coincides with a number of news stories suggesting that mental health services are becoming more and more limited due to falling budgets and soaring demand.

Since 2006, prescriptions of antidepressants have risen by around 40 percent in the UK, prompting concerns that the recession and resulting money worries might be fuelling depression and anxiety.

At the same time, despite 'ring-fenced' funding for the NHS, the Royal College of Nursing has warned that efficiency savings will result in front-line services being cut, including counsellors.

"It seems likely that self-help is going to become more and more common, simply because there are fewer alternatives for a lot of people," said Guy Brandon.

"Between efficiency savings and reforms to the NHS it's not clear what access there will be to the talking therapies over the next few years."

"There's a lot of self-help material on the internet, but a relative lack of high-quality, accessible and practical information,' added Oliver Lewis. "That's the gap that we aim to target with this website and supporting eBook."

For more information visit http://www.StressingOut.org and download the free eBook, "Stress and the City".

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