• ...you wonder why, even though you have everything, you don't feel happy.
• ...you struggle with feelings of anxiety, melancholy, or depression and seek a deeper understanding.
• ...you are interested in the scientific explanation behind your emotions, based on evolution and neuroscience.
• ...you are tired of simplistic advice about "positive thinking" and want a realistic approach to mental well-being.

This book will change your perspective and help you improve:

• Your understanding of why anxiety and depression are, in fact, normal reactions of our brain.
• Your perspective on happiness, realizing why our brain is not designed for constant bliss, but for survival.
• The way you approach your mental health, with less guilt and more compassion for yourself.
• Your ability to better manage your emotions, knowing their evolutionary origin.

Anders Hansen takes you by the hand and guides you clearly. Inside the book you will find:

• An exciting journey through the evolutionary history of the human brain.
• Clear explanations from the field of neuroscience about how our emotions work.
• Analysis of how modern life (loneliness, social media, stress) conflicts with the ancient wiring of our mind.
• A new, liberating perspective on mental distress, which does not see it as a disease, but as a normal reaction.

Anders Hansen, a distinguished psychiatrist and bestselling author in Sweden with millions of copies sold, comes to challenge everything we believed about happiness. Based on numerous scientific studies from evolutionary biology and neuroscience, he does not offer magical solutions, but something much more valuable: understanding. His approach has been internationally acclaimed because it provides a rational and at the same time compassionate explanation for why we feel the way we do.

Anders Hansen is a Swedish psychiatrist, speaker, and award-winning author. He has become internationally known for his ability to make the complex scientific concepts of neuroscience and psychiatry fully understandable to the general public. His books have been translated into dozens of languages and have helped millions of people better understand how their brain works and their mental health.

"Why do we feel so bad when everything is going well? Never in the history of humanity have we had such a long lifespan, been so healthy, and so wealthy. And yet, a wave of mental discomfort sweeps through the Western world. [...] What is happening? Why does the evolution of society not coincide with the evolution of our well-being?
To answer this question, we must turn not to the future, but to the past. Because, although we live in the 21st century, we have inside our heads a brain that was shaped in a completely different world. A world without electricity, without mobile phones, and without guaranteed access to food. A world where life was short and violent."