The will to be efficacious is the refusal to identify our ego or self with momentary feelings of helplessness and defeat.

Imagine a resource that can enhance health, eliminate stress, slow down aging, elevate mood, reduce pain, improve sleep, and increase productivity. Even a single exposure to this resource can energize you and fill you with a sensation of blissful relaxation that lasts for hours or days. Repeated exposure can transform your life in the most positive

‘Depression’, writes Ruth Cain, a senior lecturer in law at the University of Kent, ‘may appear almost self-protective: an opt-out from an unwinnable set of continual competitions’.27 Although stigmatised in many ways, it is the healthy response to a mad, uncaring world.