Quotes About Stress

Worry can bring you down to nothing and make you doubt everything you know about yourself.

Hell is not other people. Hell is the DMV.

My shrink said I had experienced acute loss and trauma caused by placing my baby for adoption, resulting in post-traumatic stress disorder.

Lucy: I don't feel like talking about college. It increases my stress level. James: And increased stress levels lead to hair loss. Lucy: My head-hair volume is fine. James: You say that like I should be concerned about leg-hair volume.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

Coping with any death is traumatic; suicide compounds the anguish because we are forced to deal with two traumatic events at the same time. According to the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the level of stress resulting from the suicide of a loved one is ranked as catastrophic–equivalent to that of a concentration camp experience.

Do not wait until your body is flooded with stress hormones before you practice mindfulness. By then, it is often too late! Instead, practice being mindful when things are going smoothly and during the early stages of stress.

Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon, and nurses are especially vulnerable.

The primary causes of errors in nursing are distraction and stress.

If you reduce your levels of distraction and stress, errors are less likely.

A person could explode if he had to think too much.

We hate our friends' kids. You get completely stressed when Kyle and Lara bring their boys to our home and they put their chocolaty fingerprints over everything and nearly burst your eardrums with their incessant noise. You have to take a handful of Nurofen the minute they've gone.

When I'm nervous, I get nasty. It's a problem.

In the Richard Scarry sense of the world, everyone in my life is busy being busy. And I'm busy too.

Stress is like high blood pressure; a silent killer that rusts you from the inside out until you're nothing more than a husk of whatever it is you were before stress devoured you.

Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There's probably no critical mass beyond which cutting yourself would ever seem to most people like a reasonable choice. I cut because it did look that way to me. I cut because something had to give. I cut because the alternatives were worse.

You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.

I thought you had to go to Iraq to get post traumatic stress disorder. And you do. But you can also just come on over to my house!

Shooting speed for thirteen years can really put a crimp in whatever career you might otherwise be attempting to sustain—ask around.

There is no easy off button for your brain.It would be really really nice if there were.

I hang up. Actually, I smash the phone down because I take my anger out on inanimate objects. Which is better than taking it out on people, right?

I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it.

Sometimes I suffer from indigestion of the mind.

cope or go crazy