Quotes About Stress

When frazzled, people tend to revert to the familiar and the well rehearsed.

Intense psychological stress tends to shut down the part of the brain responsible for innovative, creative thought.

Fatherhood, is for him, one jolt of terror after another.

She was one of those people who seemed to regard busyness as a contest you could win. p. 246

Her mind, long harassed by distress, now yielded to imaginary terrors.

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

could spill over to hysteria as the hours and minutes ticked towards the edition deadline. The news editors had phones glued to their ears,

Were a new Dante to come among us, he could write a new Inferno after visiting one of these railway stations.

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

The angrier you were, the less likely you were to think clearly.

The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility and guilt.

We have this thin layer of prefrontal cortex made just for us, sitting on top of this big animal brain. Getting this thin little layer to handle more is unrealistic." The prefrontal cortex doesn't control most of the decisions we make every day. We can't fundamentally get more out of that unique, thin layer of prefrontal cortex. "It's already overtaxed,

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During the time of stress, the "fight-or-flight" response is on and the self-repair mechanism is disabled. It is then when we say that the immunity of the body goes down and the body is exposed to the risk for disease. Meditation activates relaxation, when the sympathetic nervous system is turned off and the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, and natural healing starts.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Worry never climbed a hill, worry never paid a bill, Worry never dried a tear, worry never calmed a fear, Worry never darned a heel, worry never cooked a meal, It never led a horse to water, nor ever did a thing it "oughter."

Worry doesn't help tomorrow's troubles, but it does ruin today's happiness.

If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.