Quotes About Anxiety

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.

Love. Anaïs Nin called anxiety "love's greatest killer." But fortunately, the reverse is also true. Love is anxiety's greatest killer.

While fear might want us to imagine the worst is certain, the future—like everything else—remains uncertain, unpredictable, open, free.

An increased sexual imagination. (Fear of death often seems to counterbalance itself with thoughts of sex.)

What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure.

There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrified. It's all intense suspense, no action. It's like Jaws without the shark. But often there are sharks. Metaphorical, invisible sharks.. Maybe we would cope with the world better if we knew where those sharks were.

No creo que tu problema fuera el pánico escénico. O el miedo a casarte. Creo que tu problema era el miedo a la vida.

If you are scared when there is nothing to be scared of, eventually your brain has to give you things. And so that classic expression - 'the only thing to fear is fear itself' - becomes a kind of meaningless taunt.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

When I was living in a panic attack punctuated only by depression, when my heart pounded rapidly with fear, when I hardly knew who I was and didn't know how I could carry on living. If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here. Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.

Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol. It presses fast-forward on the whole experience.

People might be encouraged to feel inadequate, but they don't have to, as soon as they realise that the feeling is separate from the thing they are worried about

noise. Adding anxiety to depression is a bit like adding cocaine to alcohol.

But I think it spotlights the best & more frequently the worst of humanity so that increases my anxiety.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

And the great thing about this—the liberating thing—is that if our anxiety is in part a product of culture, it can also be something we can change by changing our reaction to that culture. In fact, we don't even need to consciously change at all. The change can happen simply by being aware. When it comes to our minds, awareness is very often the solution itself.

You're overthinking it. I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

You'll be fine." "I don't know if I can do this. I've gone blank." "You're overthinking it." "I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

And, for the first time, Nora worried about herself as if she was actually someone else.

Ik ben verlamd van angst voor de dwaalwegen van mijn geest, want ik weet waar hij allemaal al is geweest.

Curiosity and passion are the enemies of anxiety.

That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.

Maybe to be truly in tune with the modern world means anxiety is inevitable