Quotes About Stress

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

Worry rolls inside you like a wheel.

People can hold out just so long and then they fold.

Vegas tends to affect me that way, some combination of tension and dread to which my body responds with all the symptoms of incipient flu.

what you're so worried

What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.

But we are now starting to realize that traumatic stress is almost as common as depression. More than 12 percent of U.S. women in a recent large survey reported having significant post-traumatic stress at some point in their lives.

Yet another study found that women who had had a heart attack stood a threefold higher risk of having another if there was discord in their marriage.

Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!

Hundreds of studies now show that positive loving connections with others protect us from stress and help us cope better with life's challenges and traumas.

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.

I'm tired of carrying around the weight of the world.

Changing what you eat isn't going to help unless you start managing your stress level

Most people need a way to calm down almost daily. That's why food is such an overly used self-soothing mechanism. You are seldom more than fifty feet away from some form of food at any moment, whether it's a vending machine or a fast-food restaurant.

Instead, incest occurs in families where there is a great deal of emotional isolation, secrecy, neediness, stress, and lack of respect. In many ways incest can be viewed as part of a total family breakdown. But it is the aggressor and the aggressor alone who commits the sexual violence.

Repressed rage can be one of the major sources of stress to the body. In fact, it can actually begin to wear the body out. Rather than deal with their unacceptable rage at their partners, many women unconsciously redirect their anger inward, back onto themselves. The more a woman does this, the more internal damage she is likely to do to herself.

I felt heavy and sick in my head, stale and tired and jangled too, my nerves and my imagination were all on edge.

Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God. Not Riley. Anything but that. After all this time, couldn't her reputation as a young, crazed teenaged stalker be put to rest?

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

He tells me everything he does like any guy would after coming home from work. "Hi honey, bust day at the whore house today. Had to beat up three men and pretend to smoke a little crack".

Reframe obstacles into challenges and the stress will dissolve completely. For instance, an embarrassing moment at work can seem funny when put in a long-term frame. When we change the frame we change the meaning. Was it a waste of time or was it a valuable lesson? Did you lose it all or did you get a fresh start? Reframing is one of the most powerful tools you can implement to change your state of mind."

Cops before breakfast. Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.