Quotes About Anxiety

Because this is how it feels to live my life: scattered, fragmented, and exhausting.

it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.

My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.

I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

I'm not somebody who plans my life. In fact, I don't know what's going to happen here in India, it's such a strange climate here at the moment. So very worrying.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

You keep life on a short leash." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're scared of what you can't control.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.

Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.

Barkley's comment that ADD is more impairing than any syndrome in all mental health that is treated on an outpatient basis. More impairing than anxiety, more impairing than depression, more impairing than substance abuse. The "morbidity" of untreated ADD is profound.

Tendency to worry needlessly, endlessly; tendency to scan the horizon looking for something to worry about, alternating with inattention to or disregard for actual dangers. Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

It turned out that many women dropped out of Dr. Felitti's weight loss program because losing weight made them feel unbearably anxious and vulnerable. Their girth helped them to feel safe, beyond a man's desire to assault them. So, even though they knew that their obesity put them at risk for disease, they did not want to give up the protection they felt it afforded them.

worry results from a heightened sense of vulnerability in the presence of a diminished sense of power.