People have not always felt such anxiety. They didn't always spend so much time thinking about disaster scenarios. What is this voice in his head, what does he warn against? Are loneliness, running time, lack of money, mental illness, failures in personal relationships so terrible? Roland Paulsen, attracting a large amount of material from history, philosophy, psychology and life itself, tells when humanity became so anxious and why. He offers to figure out: what is behind the fears of a modern person and how to cope with them. His book will be interesting and useful to everyone who worries himself and who has loved ones.