Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength (Reduce Anxiety and Boost Your Confidence and Self-Esteem with this Self-Help Book for Introverted Women and Men)

by Laurie A. Helgoe

And that image turns on us. In her book Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness, architect and commentator Elizabeth Farrelly observes: “That Western culture’s happiness-addiction has burgeoned in direct parallel with its depression epidemic is as obvious as it is ironic, just as thin-worship has grown in direct parallel with the obesity epidemic.”