Quotes About Anxiety

the more threatened or stressed we are, the less access we have to the smart part of our brain, the cortex

Many of us found it harder to "fill up" during the COVID-19 pandemic; people reported more anxiety and depression, and many people used some of the less healthy forms of reward to fill that void.

Children, just like us adults, react badly to the unknown, to the strange and unfamiliar, especially when they themselves are trying to adjust to a new situation like the start of a school year.

I'm reminded of the M?ori elders and their belief that trauma, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse are "all the same thing"—and all related to our connectedness, our sense of belonging.

we feel better with the certainty of misery than the misery of uncertainty

Our society's transgenerational social fabric is fraying. We're disconnecting. I think that's making us more vulnerable to adversity, and I think it's a significant factor in the increases in anxiety, suicide, and depression we are seeing currently, even before the COVID-19 pandemic.

los detectores de mentiras, que normalmente miden las respuestas físicas relacionadas con la ansiedad y el estrés

the control she gained over the situation allowed her to manage her anxiety such that it minimized the effects that the abuse had on her daily life.

Is fear transmissible from generation to generation? Can the fearfulness of a parent be transmitted to the child? -the answer is an empathic yes.

Unpredictability and the unknown make everyone feel anxious and therefore less able to process information accurately.

the more anxious someone is the harder it is for him to accurately recall and describe his feelings, thoughts and history.

para la evaluación clínica resulta fundamental saber que, cuanta más ansiedad siente una persona, más difícil le resulta recordar y describir sus sentimientos, pensamientos e historia con exactitud.

For most people, the unknown is one of the major causes of feeling anxious or overwhelmed.

So, part of the increase in anxiety in our modern world comes down to the constant bombardment of novelty—especially social novelty—and the absence of counterbalancing relational connection.

feel like they are jumping out of their skin

To calm a frightened child, you must first calm yourself.

Human beings fear what they don't understand. The unknown scares us.

Neurotics are only too eager to figure out what other people want from them so they can fulfill or thwart those other people's desires.

Desire is a remedy for anxiety," as Lacan says in Seminar VIII, 430).

As a nation we should look more carefully at how our fear of future acts of terrorism is undermining our quality of life.

Anxiety. — Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, novelists, and technologists have all written about the effects of constant surveillance. Studies show that we are less healthy, both physically and emotionally. We have feelings of low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Surveillance strips us of our dignity. It threatens our very selves as individuals. It's a dehumanizing tactic employed in prisons and detention camps around the world.

We'll never truly be happy or safe, never. Never, ever.