Quotes About Anxiety

Sometimes it felt like parenting amounted to a series of questionable decisions, one after another.

Sometimes, during those same bleak middle-of-the-nights, he held secret fears he never said aloud. Demons had come in the dark, come with the famous Dryden fog that rolled through the town, and taken possession of his lovely, smart, kindhearted wife. And next they'd come for his daughter too.

People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.

The drone in my ear, it's like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever

Joseph wore uncertainty poorly; it seemed to somehow misshape him. I heard in it everything he hid from the world, his own sense of worthlessness, the fear behind his ego.

She'd smelled of confidence and lilies. She was my age, and yet she had what I did not - a lack of care or fear.

We're your friends," said Bridget. "And we're worried about you,"said Pepe. "I'm fine." Then I mean to laugh a silly, carefree kind of laugh, but it came out more maniacal than intended. "HAH-hee-hee-hah-hah-HAH!" Bridget and Pepe exchanged terrified looks.

In the five years it took me to come to my conclusion, I endured intense anxiety, self-doubt, sorrow, and a great deal of ambivalence about my future.

After all, a terrible anxiety attends chronic illness. Over time, it becomes difficult to untangle the suffering from symptoms like pain from the suffering inflicted by the anxiety over the possibility of more pain, and worse outcomes, in the future. This does not mean that the illness is in the mind; rather, the mind—that machine for making meaning—makes endless meanings of its new state, which may themselves influence the experience.

In 2019, a study of patients at a clinic in Iran found that "laughter yoga"—gentle yoga that includes laughing—was more effective than anti-anxiety medication in controlling symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, which are worsened by stress.

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.

There was also the fact that thinking you were paranoid could make you paranoid.

but she seemed to be made more of nerves than muscle and was always clutching at herself mentally, starting at shadows of thoughts that crept up on her.

Do you think I don't want him to be gone more than you do? I do. Because I need to know that I can still breathe properly when he's not around. If something happens to him, I have to know that I won't fall apart...

Because being so dependent on people scares me.

Those full of fear were the most dangerous of people.

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened.

Hold my hand,' she said, sobbing against him. "Hold my hand because I might disappear

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going.