Quotes About Anxiety

the covers, I tried to persuade myself that everything would be all right. It was the beginning of the longest night of my life. I took off my outer clothes and lay down on the second bunk but I couldn't sleep. I was frightened that the fire would go out. I was

WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex

There were only worries. She could think of nothing else.

They were an audience … perhaps even a jury. My stomach was still churning. I felt like the condemned man.

Alex glanced at Tom's work, which was huge, painted on six sheets of paper. It showed a terraced house, on fire with blood coming out of the windows, an ax buried in a wall, and an atomic explosion happening in the backyard. There were times when Alex worried about his friend.

one shindig to the next. I've often wondered how I would have managed if I'd been born with a stammer or chronic shyness. The modern writer has to be able to perform, often to a huge audience. It's almost like being a stand-up comedian except that the questions never change and you always end up telling the same jokes. Whether it's crime in Harrogate

He once said to me that it was like being in one of those Russian prisons where they lock you up without telling you the length of your sentence.

I didn't believe her. There was a nervousness in her eyes. I'd seen it when she held out the telephone for Damian. She'd been afraid he was going to snatch it from her. In fact, she was probably afraid of Damian.

When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.

After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?

For the longest time, I was just real nervous about privacy and people prying into my personal business.

I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Several years ago, I began losing my hair, and like a lot of men, it was a major concern to me, in fact it was practically an obsession. But, also I'm an actor, so I'm in the public eye a lot and I really felt that my hair loss could affect my career prospects.

I went through my entire public school career going to bed crying because I was getting Ds.

If I had to work a 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. job in the public service, I'd freak out.

I'd rather go on stage and talk or do public speaking than sing. Singing is very scary. It's very exposing.

I used to fear public speaking. My voice would shake, I used to forget to breathe. Now it's pretty easy for me.

Doing stand-up is not normal. People fear public speaking above all other things, and I am no different.