![]() ![]() Why do we feel so time-crunched? Because we are. The phenomenon crosses socioeconomic lines: poorer parents are overwhelmed trying to cobble together several part-time jobs, while affluent families are working an insane number of hours and have children with higher rates of depression. ![]() She cites a Canadian survey of 30,000 workers and working families in which 90 percent report moderate to high levels of “role overload,” or trying to do too many things at once. She says the average high school kid today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s. ![]() Schulte, an award-winning staff reporter with the Washington Post, talks to sociologists and scientists around the world to illustrate how serious and widespread the situation is. Instead, Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time is a thoroughly researched map of the official policies and societal pressures that are shredding our leisure into useless bits of time confetti, fragmenting our humanity and, perhaps most disturbing, putting our children at risk. But her book is not a collection of simplistic how-to advice we’ve heard before, such as taking spa weekends (as if we had the time). Then you are officially caught in The Overwhelm, as author Brigid Schulte puts it. Ever found yourself frantically baking cupcakes at 2 am, taking a conference call in the hallway outside the dentist’s office, or scrambling to meet work deadlines during Sunday dinner? ![]()
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