A certain amount of stress is necessary to keep
us motivated. However, too much stress can have an adverse effect on our
health and well-being, affecting our everyday performance and personal relationships.
Repeated, continuing, severe stress has a weakening and demoralising effect
which may make it more difficult to tackle the underlying problems that
are causing the stress.
Professor Wilkinson’s invaluable book explains exactly what stress
is and the problems it creates, as well as giving advice on self-help measures
and where to go for help.
Professor Greg Wilkinson graduated in medicine
at Edinburgh University and trained as a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital
in London. He is Professor of Liaison Psychiatry at the University of Liverpool,
where he has responsibility for teaching medical students and undertaking
research on mental health problems.
