A description of getting oneself into a worse and worse cycle, with something in the neighborhood of meditation as the way out.

The short version is that people try to get rid of problems by methods which they hope will immediately make themselves feel better so that they can go back to the way they were living before they noticed the problem.

However, the restriction of awareness to wanting to get rid of the problem and the fantasy of how one will feel when the problem goes away is a large part of the problem.

Life gets much better when you quit fighting the present moment.

The Bearable Lightness of Being-- more about the implications of not imposing artificial separations on one's experiences.