Anxiety and Contemporary Society

In 2010, a report revealed that 52 per cent of people who had lost their jobs to the recession manifested symptoms of anxiety, and 71 per cent reported being depressed. The most affected were those in the age group eighteen to thirty. In Britain, the NHS estimates that one in twenty adults is affected by anxiety.

In the United States, every year about 18 per cent of the population suffers from an anxiety disorder. In 2009 the UK government offered psychological help to the millions of people who were confronted with unemployment and debt by increasing the number of therapists and…