RUBY Wax warns “we are not equipped for this century” in her 2015 tour show, Sane New World, whose pins on the Britcomedy map include the Grand Opera House, York, on September 14 “It’s too hard, too fast, and too full of fear; we just don’t have the bandwidth,” says the US-born, long-naturalised British comedy turn.”Our brains can’t take so much information in a world where we’re bombarded by bad news and force-fed information.

“I can just about take in the weather, then I’m exhausted. You open a newspaper, everyone’s dead. We’re only supposed to know what our neighbour is up to; if the woman next door to you is having sex with the man next door to her we need to know; but four doors down and it’s none of our business.”

After last year’s publication of Ruby’s Sane New World, Taming The Mind, here is Sane New World – The Tour, a show designed to help us understand why we sabotage our own sanity.

Using her knowledge from her Masters degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at Oxford University, Ruby will provide a manual on how to survive the 21st century, as the 61-year-old comedian, writer and mental health campaigner explains how our busy, chattering, self-critical thoughts drive us to anxiety and stress.

“If we are to break the cycle, we need to understand how our brains work, re-wire our thinking and find calm in a frenetic world,” suggests Ruby, who draws on her own periods of depression to chart her route to a sane new world.

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday at 8am on 0844 871 3024.