Quotes About Overwhelm

Being the one-woman label that I am takes a toll on you; you have to do everything.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

The future felt like a herd of buffalo stampeding straight at me, and all I wanted was to get the fuck out of the way.

The bad days were when the world wouldn't stay out of his head, when everyone he looked at wore a swirling crown of color, and everything he touched carried the charge of someone else's life.

I felt like an old bone being worried by three dogs, like sooner or later one of them was going to pull too hard, and I was just going to snap in half. The Money Dog, the Fever Dog, and the Dreams Dog I called them, and I didn't know which of them I should be scared of most. They all three had teeth like alligators.

What you never read about is the millions of normal women who are struggling to hold it all together and don't own a planner because we don't exactly know what we'd write in one!

Now the world seemed to her to have become so complex that its problems defied solution. There was only a chaos of conflicts of interest; the whole thing filled her with a sense of futility.

Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you?

Technology freed us up . . . to imprison us further. It's created the imperative to go faster, to take on more ideas, and to juggle more.

We rush to escape what makes us anxious, which makes us anxious, and so we rush some more.

Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 Televisions and 100 Radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.

These women often believe they are fooling anyone who thinks well of them because without any warning the switch inside their heads could turn off and their feelings of inadequacy would be exposed. They worry that they won't have enough time, that their systems won't work, or that people will drop in unexpectedly. Any minute things could fall apart.

Learn to know your particular balance between being overstimulated/understimulated and overwhelmed/underwhelmed.

I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.

sometimes it's the senseless feelings which overwhelm you, the despair and frustration which build to dangerous levels and the subsequent release, the cigarettes, alcohol, nameless fucks, nights spent in the drunk tank. the cats howling outside the window know this and they act accordingly.

You're ten pints of crazy in a one-pint glass.

When you absolutely don't know what to do anymore, it is time to panic

I don't watch the news. I get really emotional about it, and I carry that stuff with me for a long time.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

Digiphrenia"—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.