IN MODERN LIFE, IT CAN SEEM THAT we are all rushing to improve aspects of ourselves and our productivity, to reach what we believe is our potential, and to stand out from the crowd. If we don’t, we fear we’ll fail. But instead, many of us have become embroiled in a running battle with our own bodies, which can leave us at risk of far greater disaster: exhaustion, burnout and long-term fatigue.
Scottish-born Vincent Deary is a professor of psychology at Northumbria University and a clinical fatigue specialist at an NHS multi-disciplinary clinic in the north-east of England. He has just published the second part of a planned trilogythe final book will be but it took much longer to complete because Deary’s own life story intervened.
