Quotes About Anxiety

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Choices made in fear to fix the moment can poison the future.

Anxiety bites. He's judging her. Judging her whole stupid, conservative, privileged, white family—she can see it, feel it.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It uses up all your energy, but where does it get you?

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.

Yalom wrote in Existential Psychotherapy, our awareness of death helps us live more fully—and with less, not more, anxiety.

Displacement's a bitch, isn't it? We all use defense mechanisms to deal with anxiety, frustration, or unacceptable impulses, but what's fascinating about them is that we aren't aware of them in the moment.

She still equates feeling loved not with peace or joy but with anxiety.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable. We'll talk with almost anyone about our physical health (can anyone imagine spouses hiding their reflux medication from each other?), even our sex lives, but bring up anxiety or depression or an intractable sense of grief, and the expression on the face looking back at you will probably read, Get me out of this conversation, pronto.

avoidance is almost always about fear.

My favorite definition of fear is "False Expectations Appearing Real

What if everything she most dreaded was happening now?

Being scared wasn't an emotion Zack was familiar with, but it had him in its grip now.

Oh good Lord. She definitely hadn't put on enough deodorant for this.

Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst conclusion in a single bound!

I'm a shaky traveler, she said. I can't even sleep through a flight, I have to be awake for the crash.

If overthinking burned calories, I'd be dead.

on a scale of mental breakdowns from Justin Bieber to Britney Spears, I think I'm about a Shia LaBeouf.

If thought bubbles appeared above my head, I'd be so screwed.

Anxiety is having 99 problems and 86 of them are made-up scenarios that might never happen, but you stress about them anyway.

Harper Shaw was a single snack-getting-stuck-in-a-vending-machine away from an anxiety attack. But hey, that was what happened when you decided nothing in your life sparked joy. You wiped your slate clean like an Etch A Sketch and started over.