Quotes About Stress

Worry is a misuse of imagination. ~Dan Zadra

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

Social government was never Superman's arena. It is possible that the constant pressures thrust upon him as an emerging world leader could bend even a man of steel to the breaking point?

The memories of previous failures and the images of feared future scenarios that we bring to mind in the process add their own twist to the spiral of worsening mood.

Depression may be exacting a staggering toll, but its cousin—chronic anxiety—is becoming disturbingly common too, with average levels of anxiety in children and young people now at a point that would have been judged to be "clinical" in the 1950s.4 It's not a great stretch of the imagination to assume that in a few decades unhappiness, depression and anxiety will have become the normal human condition, rather than happiness and contentment.

For maybe the first time in years, you're noticing in real time how the mind creates tension in the body. Soon you'll notice that the body also creates tension in the mind in a self-sustaining loop.

strained time-ridden faces, distracted from distraction by distraction.

Our procrastination is fueled by our perfectionism. We get caught in the trap of thinking we don't have time to do it right. This is when we do nothing. Eventually the procrastination bites us hard and our homes become overwhelming.

For example, just ten minutes of warm, supportive touching between couples who live together causes a marked increase in oxytocin in the blood.262 The more supportive those couples, the higher their blood levels of oxytocin. Massage and other supportive and caring touch lower stress hormones and blood pressure, particularly among young married men, while also releasing oxytocin.

The ability to offer empathy to people in stressful situations can defuse potential violence.

It's the little moments that trigger some of our most outsized and unproductive responses:

Frankly, I didn't know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I'm sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was.

The humans hadn't gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.

But media would calm me down, and I wanted to stay angry.

Attacker is still pulling us toward the wormhole," Mihail announced on comm, not sounding too much like someone who was restraining the urge to scream a little.

During all this, Volescu was huddled on the churned up rock, losing his shit, not that I was unsympathetic. I was far less vulnerable in this situation than he was and I wasn't exactly having a great time either.

Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control

Miltown, Librium, Valium,

Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night's worry is added to the day's sweat.

Denmark shows up regularly on magazine and online lists as "the happiest nation on earth," yet every year tens of thousands of business professionals leave the country. In a nation of only 5.6 million people, where one in four Danish women admits to suffering from high degrees of stress, its hard not to believe that some lists can be misleading. Denmark

Cuanto mayor sea el grado de estrés, más temerosos, inseguros e inciertos nos sentimos y más irracional tiende a ser nuestro comportamiento.

It is the only way of meeting the deadline, they think.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

If she were neater, she might not have to resort to panic searches when she misplaced important things.