At Night With Dan Riendeau

American the Anxious  In her mid 30’s journalist and filmmaker Ruth Whippman moved from her native Britain to California and discovered a culture obsessed with being happy – though few if any were actually achieving that lofty goal.  North America’s happiness mania, Whippmann argues, is paradoxically making us miserable. Ruth Whippmann, author of Ameica the Anxious: How our pursuit of happiness is creating a nation of nervous wrecks.