Quotes About Anxiety

Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ. Genetic research suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans

I'd hire an accountant or lawyer with an anxiety disorder over one without any day of the week.

And there was the nervous one who couldn't sleep but kept everyone on time and figured out which berries not to eat.

Fears of the future [are] almost always rooted in the past. (175)

Fear, of course, was always, and in the end only, about itself. (45)

We name and talk of a problematic 'transvestism,' the desire to dress in the clothes of the other sex. We do not usually name and speak of the strong desire to dress in the clothes of one's own sex. But why would most of us feel intense anxiety at dressing publicly in the clothes of the other sex? Does not our fervid desire to dress in the clothes of our own sex suggest a mystery to be explored?

One of the biggest causes of suffering is social comparison," Coleman said. "Status anxiety is a huge component of this kind of self-torture. Have I achieved enough? Am I a failure? Am I a success?

increases in the suicide rate and in incidence of mental illness.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

Okay, maybe I'd been a little ratty, but there's something about rotting corpses leaping at my face that puts me a bit on edge.

Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him

This emptiness you talk about," I said, "I think you're getting too worked up about it.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Things have been going too well for me lately. I feel like I have some bad karma headed my way." Tamara frowns at me as she leads me toward the dressing rooms. "That's a pretty dire outlook on life," she says. "What's the point in working to be happy if you're going to be constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering when it's time to pay the bill?

I'm scared of scary movies.

Vede, i bambini ci educano come noi li educhiamo. M. deve precisamente insegnarle a trionfare sulla sua ansietà profonda imparando a immettere una creatura nella vita senza preoccuparsi eccessivamente del domani.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.

I felt like a guy in a cell being stared at longingly by a naked one-hundred-and-ten-kilo lifer. You know, sooner or later, that something unpleasant is going to happen to you. -The Ballad of the Low Lifes, by Enrico Remmert (2003), P. 20

De aquí surge un nuevo hombre: embotado, repleto de cosas, pero vacío interiormente. Va a ir siguiendo la ruta de la ansiedad, que terminará en una forma especial de melancolía e indiferencia.

la melancolía y la ansiedad. El diagnóstico decadente de la cultura occidental

La velocidad tiene sus cosas buenas y también sus desventajas. Por un lado, la inmediatez de poder ser localizado desde la otra punta del mundo nos conecta a este, pero a la vez también nos genera un plus de ansiedad. Ya no tenemos la serenidad ni la paz de que disponíamos antes. Confundimos el hecho de tener amigos en redes sociales como el Facebook, donde te agregan con un solo clic, con la profundidad de las relaciones que exigen tiempo y experiencias compartidas.