Passage 2More than 300 million people suffer from depression around the world, and another 260 millionpeople suffer from anxiety. Technology and the constant cacophony of modern life are cited as themain causes of the increasing 26 of mental illness. After falling into depression aged 24, Matt Haig,a British writer, has used the experience to write about mental health. The book, Reasons to StayAlive, 27 in 2015, was his story of trying to cope with mental illness. His latest book, Notes on aNervous Planet, focuses on overcoming anxiety, notably the angst from the constant stream ofsocial media. Haig examines modern 28 mental health with personal anecdotes and lists of ways tostay sane. He favors techniques similar to those offered in cognitive behavioral therapy, as in athought-provoking chapter that simply sets out why our insecurities about our looks are not aboutlooks, but about our insecurities. There is even a well-aimed 29 a society that claims to be defeating“mental health stigma” while still judging people with unfashionable conditions such as alcoholism,psychosis or borderline personality disorder. Haig said, the aim of the book isn’t to say thateverything is a disaster because we already have social media. But nonetheless Haig is convincedthat modern life, combined with the increasing pace of change, is 30 our mental health. And “thedisorder isn’t individual”, he argues. “It is social. It is global.”
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(A) prevalence
(B) production
(C) perpetuation
(D) perplexity