CHAPTER 1
What is anxiety?
Keep calm and carry on’ has become an extremely popular slogan in recent years. But it’s a saying that goes right back to the early days of the Second World War.
In 1939, the UK Ministry of Information produced a series of three posters. One warned citizens: ‘Freedom is in peril. Defend it with all your might.’ A second proclaimed: ‘Your courage, your cheerfulness, your resolution will bring us victory.’ And the third looked like this:
As it happens, this reassuring message wasn’t seen by most people during the war because the poster wasn’t widely distributed. But there can’t be many of us who haven’t come across ...
Get How to Keep Calm and Carry On now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
