Quotes About Stress

HSPs know all about being "too tired to sleep." They are actually too frazzled to sleep.

One general rule is that when we have no control over stimulation, it is more upsetting, even more so if we feel we are someone's victim.

It is true for everyone, even infants. They hate to feel bored or overwhelmed.

Sooner or later everyone encounters stressful life experiences, but HSPs react more to such stimulation. If you see this reaction as part of some basic flaw, you intensify the stress already present in any life crisis.

shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed.

under stress, HSCs can return to the behaviors and problems of a younger age, and when feeling good HSCs can act older than their age, so the advice for an age that your child is not may still apply right now;

anxious HSPs almost all had troubled childhoods. Non-HSPs with troubled childhoods do not show nearly as much depression and anxiety.

Some of us get caught up in demands from others. These may be real responsibilities or may be the common ideas of what makes for success—money, prestige, security. Then there are the pressures others can bring to bear on us because we are so unwilling to displease anyone.

A hectic schedule is a lifestyle choice . . .

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Lies are better than tranquilizers.

Tu capisci, Lenú, che cosa succede alle persone: abbiamo troppa roba dentro e questo ci gonfia, ci rompe.

How can I explain to this woman—I thought—that from the age of six I've been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?

Al final decidí que, con veterinario o sin él, el concierto me relajaría. La música siempre hace bien, desata los nudos con que los nervios se aferran a las emociones.

Me refiero a su situación, señora -acentuó el señora, lo dejó caer hasta el fondo del infierno: se-ño-ra-, y lo que de ella puede derivarse.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

The Power of Relaxation is the lessening effect of stress. To achieve this we need to have the perfect platform to catalytically reach the summit of inner peace where we are at concord with our self, our friends and The Universe.

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

During arousal, the electrical resistance of the skin is diminished; the pupil of the eye dilates; the respiratory rate may become either faster or slower, or else become irregular. Blood-pressure tends to rise, as does the heart rate. There is an increase in muscular tone, which may be accompanied

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Any idiot can face a crisis — it's day to day living that wears you out.

American doctors did not of course know then what the Germans had discovered after the battle of Stalingrad. The combination of stress, exhaustion, cold and malnourishment upsets the metabolism, and gravely reduces the body's capacity to absorb calories and vitamins.