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What can we do to feel secure and gain confidence in the face of looming expectations in life? The renowned neurologist, psychiatrist, and scientist Prof. Dr. Volker Busch explains how our mental immune system works and shows which strategies empower us and keep us healthy. Constant crises, lack of direction, pessimism, overheating, and outrage: uncertain times breed fear, pessimism, and despondency. Negative news and bleak future forecasts infect our minds and poison our thinking. This challenges our mental immune system in constantly new ways. Therefore, it is crucial to understand how psychological protective mechanisms function and how to improve them. Scientifically grounded, empathetic, and humorous, Volker Busch describes how we can find solid ground beneath our feet in a time when many things have become unstable. Based on exciting research findings and his extensive experience as a treating physician, the neurologist explains what happens to our brain in crisis mode and how we can pull it out of that state. At the same time, he outlines ways to strengthen our mental defense and protection system and confront the challenges of the present. The goal is to protect and preserve our mental health. Learn how to find security in a world where certainties have been lost, prevent infection with negativity, develop genuine positivity, interrupt rumination, and stop thoughts that poison the mind, cultivate cheerfulness and humor against irritability and inner tension, and gain confidence and courage for the future instead of being trapped in worries and fears. To protect our psyche, we have a mental immune system. It aligns the world in our heads, shields us from negativity, diminishes fears, encourages action, and creates space for laughter.