Quotes About Anxiety

It is a fear that must be defended against at all costs. In an effort to quell his anxiety, he tries to gain control over his partner by destroying her self-confidence, so that she can never leave him and he will be safe.

Paul's stepfather had implanted in Paul the need to be perfect—Perfectionism. Paul's fear of failing to do things perfectly led him to postpone doing them—Procrastination. But the more Paul put things off, the more they overwhelmed him, and his snowballing fears eventually prevented him from doing anything at all—Paralysis.

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

I felt heavy and sick in my head, stale and tired and jangled too, my nerves and my imagination were all on edge.

If you are supposed to telephone the client, remember that your relationship starts when she answers the phone. Be professional and concerned but remember that the purpose of the call is not to do therapy over the telephone but to arrange a mutually convenient time when you can meet face-to-face. The client may be anxious; however, do not assume that you know what that anxiety is about. Also remember that asking for help is not an easy thing to do.

Part of getting better was learning how to let go. It had taken her a while but she'd finally figured out that when she stopped trying to control the world, she had a whole lot less anxiety.

Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. Not Riley. Anything but that. After all this time, couldn't her reputation as a young, crazed teenaged stalker be put to rest?

On her worst days, she feared she was actually less. And that truth had defined the rest of her life.

fear, she thought. It must be part of the human condition and yet it was as wasteful as wishing.

We're all scared. Some of us are just better at faking it.

If I have any more caffeine today, I'm going to be jumpier than a grasshopper on lawn-mowing day.

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one "role" to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I'm supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it's successfully executed.

Recientemente la fotografía se ha transformado en una diversión casi tan cultivada como el sexo y el baile, lo cual significa que la fotografía, como toda forma artística de masas, no es cultivada como tal por la mayoría. Es sobre todo un rito social, una protección contra la ansiedad y un instrumento de poder.

A fotografia, mais recentemente, transformou-se num divertimento tão praticado como o sexo e a dança, o que significa que, como todas as formas de arte de massas, a fotografia não é praticada pela maioria das pessoas como arte. É sobretudo um rito social, uma defesa contra a ansiedade e um instrumento de poder.

Photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

A completely open, unpredictable future makes me horribly anxious… It's as if I'm supposed to walk through a forest without being allowed to inform myself whether or not it's full of wolves.

she leaped down the porch steps to her car. There was no thought. No planning. Just action. When you get a call that your kid is in the ER, there can be no room for thinking. Just the deepest fear imaginable, the kind that gripped like a steel band around her chest.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success. The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.

into the drawing room, where she and Connie waited, Kathleen anxiously walking back and forth, Connie noisily gulping her tea and silently congratulating herself. Suddenly there was a lot of shouting, much closer now. Then a loud, rattling bang. 'Stay here,' Kathleen told Connie. She hurried out of the room and across to the study. The door was wide

She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.