Quotes About Anxiety

it is okay to have anxiety. What is not okay is to let your anxiety control you.

Knowing what you're afraid of means you know why your pulse is racing, and that knowledge provides you with a choice: Handle the anxiety in a healthy way by identifying the cause and managing the symptoms, or handle it in an unhealthy way by running from the situation you fear.

Parents in particular often confuse nurturing with rescuing. To nurture is to empower —to provide the skills and information that will eventually allow for independent, productive living. To rescue is to enable —to perpetuate avoidance of the situation that caused the anxiety in the first place. Empowering should be the overriding goal of every parent. Empowerment allows a child of whatever age to face fears and take responsibility for his or her life.

The more you understand about anxiety, the more you will be able to control it. Remember, social anxiety is not some abstract phenomenon or indelible personality trait. It is an explainable dynamic that you can choose to control.

What does running from a bear have to do with social anxiety? Everything.

Despite his plagiarism, and despite his fundamental disagreements with them, King learned lasting theological lessons from Tillich and Wieman. In his seminal work, The Courage to Be, Tillich wrote that the courage to be requires acceptance of anxiety—the anxiety that comes with guilt, condemnation, and death. That courage means staying connected to God when one loses faith. "But doubt is not the opposite of faith," Tillich wrote, "it is one element of faith.

The first hands he heard banging at the outside walls felt like nails pushing into his temples. Then there were more hands. Pounding. Punching. Scratching. Then kicks and shrieking that even drowned out the sound of the rain. The worst was when Ham could make out individual voices. He could hear their neighbor Zebeleh and her little daughter Ariel

Even if we take Nietzsche figuratively (which he would have much preferred anyway), fifty years of research on stress shows that stressors are generally bad for people,3 contributing to depression, anxiety disorders, and heart disease.

The modern obsession with protecting young people from "feeling unsafe" is, we believe, one of the (several) causes of the rapid rise in rates of adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicide, which we'll explore in chapter

Many university students are learning to think in distorted ways, and this increases their likelihood of becoming fragile, anxious, and easily hurt.

many parents, K-12 teachers, professors, and university administrators have been unknowingly teaching a generation of students to engage in the mental habits commonly seen in people who suffer from anxiety and depression.

surprisingly sharp discontinuity that begins around birth-year 1995. She calls those born in and after 1995 "iGen," short for "internet Generation." (Others use the term "Generation Z.") Twenge shows that iGen suffers from far higher rates of anxiety and depression than did Millennials at the same age—and higher rates of suicide.

You want to be relaxed when you play, and practicing while worried or anxious won't help you achieve that relaxation.

If dust was present, it was hiding in fear.

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.

works." "Ree's still worried about that," I said. "Could you blame her? Taking

always talked about her middle sister, my aunt Edna, being afraid of her own shadow as a kid. When

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

That's the way it is with most people: Details are an intrusion. Then there's the rest of us, lying in bed at three a.m., scrolling through volumes of mental small print.

As Andrew stood before his students he felt the nerves that rack any amateur hypocrite.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

What could I do? I was afraid he'd point at me and say 'Him!,' and then lightning bolts would hit me or something" -Chong

I could feel the shakes starting to come back, so I washed my face, rinsed my mouth out with handfuls of tap water, pasted on my best I-didn't-just-kill-a-zombie expression, and left with my coffee.

That's called terror. Its confusion and a little paranoia and a nice big dose of panic.