Quotes About Anxiety

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Wu Wei is a delight in knowing that everything will be all right. It is not refusing to do anything, it is refusing to do insignificant things. Wu Wei is efficiency. It is the precondition of Wu Bu Wei. Wu Wei requires giving up secondary matters and aiming for the key matters. You can only Wu Bu Wei because you Wu Wei. The modern meets the ancient. Wu Wei is the secret of health. Only if you abandon anxiety can you do anything with a healthy mind and body.

Brett has just shit his pants. He's not crying or whimpering, but he's so full of fear, it's as if his body is imploding.

She's too stoned to run, but stoned enough to be terrified.

Alabama's so scared she pees on herself.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

I wouldn't mind dying — it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

Big Announcement! There Are Different Ways of Talking to Worry

the more you fight the uncomfortable sensations directly, the stronger they seem to grow. The more you run from panic, the faster it seems to chase you. The more you avoid panic-provoking situations, the more panic controls your life. If we place ourselves on guard, waiting and watching for the next signs of trouble, we are inviting panic to return sooner. How? By establishing a special relationship with panic, a relationship of opposites.

A minor physical problem is producing a few symptoms. You become introspective and oversensitive to these sensations and then become anxious. Your heightened awareness and concern produce an increase in discomfort. If this continues, you can turn an insignificant physical problem into major psychological distress.

The single most important way to win over panic attacks is to respond to them from a different point of view. To get better, you don't struggle with anxiety, you don't try to get rid of the uncomfortable sensations, you don't avoid threatening situations. You choose to take a different attitude toward them. With this new attitude in place, you will know what actions to take.

When a person suffers from anxiety attacks, one of the greatest obstacles to recovery can be the fear that these attacks are the indication of a major physical illness—and in rare cases that is true. But most often, when a person continually worries about physical illness, that kind of worry intensifies or even produces panic attacks. In other words, the less you worry, the healthier you will become.

The most destructive thing you can do when faced with panic attacks is to steadfastly believe that your physical discomfort means that you have a serious physical illness, despite continued professional reassurance to the contrary. That is why it is essential that you work with a physician whom you can trust until he or she reaches a diagnosis.

If you remain fearfully convinced that you have a physical ailment, even when there is a consensus to the contrary among the professionals who have evaluated you, then you can be certain of one thing: your fear is directly contributing to your panic episodes.

I'll become stronger by purposely facing what I am afraid of. It's OK that I'm anxious right now. I can handle these sensations. I can handle this uncertainty. I want this anxiety. I want this uncertainty. Love the mat. Run toward the roar.

When you hear yourself say, "I'm dizzy; I could faint!" say something like, "That's a good, anxiety-provoking thought. I want that thought, too." Don't do anything with the thought. Don't embellish it or encourage it. Don't talk yourself out of it. Notice it and accept it as an expected fearful thought in such a situation. Then wait for the next threatening thought or feeling.

As soon as you declare it a test, your body is going to secrete adrenaline, because you will be saying to yourself, "Uh-oh. I'd better do well," while you simultaneously imagine yourself failing. That process will cause you to feel anxious. The more you set up future events as tests, the more you are going to feel anxious.

Remember that you win over panic by not resisting. Be patient and you will eventually get a spontaneous insight. It might sound like this: "Hey! Four out of the last twelve times when I said, 'I can handle this; I want this,' and really meant it, my anxiety just faded away. Another five times I stayed anxious, but I handled it fine. It didn't leave, and I didn't freak out. Maybe it really is all about how I respond. Cool.

You purposely choose to feel uncomfortable and uncertain within your threatening situations: "I want this." • You choose to linger with your anxiety and uncertainty instead of escaping. • You notice your negative and fearful thoughts without getting caught up in them. You accept them without getting rid of them.

We are always afraid of the unknown.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

I have my writers' neuroses but not their talents.

Those who own much have much to fear.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He