Quotes About Anxiety

I'm scared of ghosts and aliens.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I always get nervous before a gig, so I look over my writing, trying not to fantasise about all the things that could go horribly wrong.

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

Before really high-pressured gigs I tend to freeze and crawl into bed. Under the covers you just feel safe for a little while.

I love comedy and I did a few gigs here and there but it never really took off. It was too scary.

When I play on stage, I have to drink a glass of water.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

Once I got so worried because I had to hit my costar with a glass bottle that I began crying.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

I'm nervous before all games, but once I hit that first shot, the jitters go away.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can't be outside very often. And also to not ever be just 'some girl' again. Just being some chick at some place, that's gone.

You know you've have a good idea when you're lying awake at night going 'someone else is going to take it, I just know it!'

I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

I'm happy that I wrote 'How Should a Person Be?' and I wouldn't have written that exact book if we had just done the play. So much of the book is about the anxiety of failure - the failure of the play and the failure of the divorce and the failure of not feeling like a good person.

I get nervous before every single game, but I think it's a good sign. It means I care and want it to go as well as it possibly can.

I get nervous every match, before the match especially. But I think it's a good sign. That means you want to win.

The good thing about being nervous is that you perform better.

I had such a run of bad luck that you lose faith that good things are going to happen any more. I still don't answer the door because I went through so long expecting it to be a bailiff.

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Exposure and Response Prevention (E&RP) encourages participants to expose themselves to their obsessions (or to situations that will bring on the obsessions), while they prevent themselves from using compulsions to get rid of the resulting anxiety.