Quotes About Stress

I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.

Gracie's father was an engineer, her mother an accountant. I couldn't picture either one of them yelling or throwing things or having affairs. I could see my dad doing stuff like that. Trish sure did. But Dad carried a war in his skull, and Trish was a drunk. Gracie's parents didn't have anything like that to deal with, but their daughter was falling apart on the bathroom floor.

You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that? I informed Nana.

Moments of pure relaxation were rare for me. There was always the nagging of books unread, work undone, time a-wasting.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different.

I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Every day we are challenged by events, people and situations that are extremely frustrating and anger producing.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

A hundred to one says you weren't able to secure insurance for this little operation. True. I knew better. I didn't even try. So if a starfighter goes down and gets blown up, you're paying for it out of pocket, correct? Dodging the bogeys is better for all of us. I can't stress that enough.