Quotes About Stress

Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel. Silence and smiles aren't the only way to respond to pain. Sometimes it is good to howl.

I sometimes feel like my head is a computer with too many windows open.

Everyone has a limit - a point at which they can't take any more - and, almost out of nowhere, I had reached mine.

I want to know if one of the reasons I sometimes feel like I am on the brink of a breakdown is partly because the world sometimes seems on the brink of a breakdown.

I was scared. I couldn't not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.

So, as physical health and mental health are intertwined, couldn't the same be said about the modern world? Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world?

Mornings were hard on Earth. You woke up tireder than when you went to sleep. Your back ached. Your neck ached. Your chest felt tight with anxiety that came from being mortal. And then, on top of all that, you had to do so much before the day even started. The main problem was the stuff to do in order to be presentable.

Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone's life as a major factor.

Crying releases stress hormones. Swearing increases pain tolerance. Fury can motivate us into action. Feel what you feel.

Mornings were hard on Earth. You woke up tireder than when you went to sleep. Your back ached. Your neck ached. Your chest felt tight with anxiety that came from being mortal. And then, on top of all that, you had to do so much before the day even started.

Sometimes depression triggers anxiety.

Assessment culture is toxic. The Belgian professor of psychoanalysis, Paul Verhaeghe, believes that the way work is now set up in our societies, with supervisors supervising supervisors and everyone being watched and marked and continually assessed, is toxic.

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

Everything weighed down on her. The small rituals of her daily existence—filling the dishwasher, picking up from school, cooking—had all been performed as if underwater.

What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure.

Ha estado usted sometido a mucha presión últimamente? No entendía bien: ¿a qué tipo de presión se refería?, ¿atmosférica?, ¿gravitacional? —Sí —dije—. A mucha. Por todas partes hay presión de una clase u otra.

No one has ever found a Neolithic cave painting of someone waking up stressed because they slept through their alarm and missed their nine o'clock management meeting.

The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world? Not just in terms of the stuff of modern life, but its values, too. The values that cause us to want more than we have. To worship work above play. To compare the worst bits of ourselves with the best bits of other people.

However, when humans forget to breathe they also forget they are alive, and this is dangerous. It can lead to a loss of perspective, and a focus on things like mortgages, professional rivalry, the car they should be driving, and whether there is a need to refurbish the kitchen

Had we been through some trauma we didn't know about? Was the noise and speed of modern life the trauma for our caveman brains? Or was life a kind of war most people didn't see?