Quotes About Anxiety

For me, school was a nightmare. I struggled.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

I have a lot of anxiety and mental health struggles and things, as we all do. Sometimes, I would be so anxious and so hyper-aware, I would just create these scenarios in my head that were not actually happening, or I would read way too freaking deeply into things.

I'm open to talking about what I've been through with my anxiety disorder and my mental health struggles to try and help other people.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

I'm a worrier. I worry about everything - I worry about the kids, my family, my health, Matt's health. I always think the worst - and he keeps me calm, he's really optimistic. He's a constant support with everything.

You get more nervous in front of a lot of people. That's why, when you play a concerto, you play with a small orchestra, in some place where you don't feel that it is as important as Carnegie Hall.

I was really scared when I went to Oregon State. I wasn't sure I could play at the college level.

I've always broken out in hives when I go into any organized religious situation.

I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, 'Okay, you like to clean or be organized.' That's really not what it is, especially not for everybody. In my case, it was me being super self-conscious, to the point where it was debilitating.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.

The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?

The Coronavirus crisis is causing fear, anxiety and financial hardship for families across our community, our state and our nation.

My wife never comes to watch me fight, she gets too nervous, so do my family. They will only watch it on the television after they know the outcome.