Quotes About Overwhelm

I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

In the land where everyone screams, everyone is also slightly deaf.

Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.

But after spending ages walking around with everyone piling bricks in your arms, it can throw you off balance when someone removes a brick to carry for you.

It's easy to fall apart completely

Yeah but I don't know how to make myself go there. Maybe it might never happen again. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

I could never step lightly enough or run fast enough to get away from the cracking, so I made everything around me so loud that it drowned out the sound.

Jon Kabat-Zinn describes overwhelm as the all-too-common feeling "that our lives are somehow unfolding faster than the human nervous system and psyche are able to manage well.

eventually our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we'd be able to handle everything.

Shame enters for those of us who experience anxiety because not only are we feeling fearful, out of control, and incapable of managing our increasingly demanding lives, but eventually our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we'd be able to handle everything

Overwhelmed means an extreme level of stress, an emotional and/or cognitive intensity to the point of feeling unable to function. I

Wholeheartedly do indeed DIG Deep. They just do it in a different way. When they're exhausted and overwhelmed, they get Deliberate in their thoughts and behaviors through prayer, meditation, or simply setting their intentions; Inspired to make new and different choices; Going. They take action.

Anguish is an almost unbearable and traumatic swirl of shock, incredulity, grief, and powerlessness. Shock and incredulity can take our breath away, and grief and powerlessness often come for our hearts and our minds. But anguish, the combination of these experiences, not only takes away our ability to breathe, feel, and think—it comes for our bones.

The dig-deep is a secret level of pushing through when we're exhausted and overwhelmed, and when there's too much to do and too little time for self-care.

to cope successfully. This includes elements of unpredictability, uncontrollability, and feeling overloaded.

I wondered, What if I can't keep all of these balls in the air? Why isn't everyone else working harder and living up to my expectations? What will people think if I fail or give up? When can I stop proving myself to everyone? For

Permanence can be tough for me, so I've developed the habit of asking myself, "I'm really scared, worried, overwhelmed, stressed about what's happening. Will this issue be a big deal in five minutes? Five hours? Five days? Five months? Five years?

especially when the joy is so intense that we're afraid to let ourselves feel it.

But the truth is, we can't handle it. We are a nation of exhausted and overstressed adults raising overscheduled children.

There are days when I can fight the urge to be everything to everyone, and there are days when it gets the best of me.

we spend an unreasonable amount of time managing problematic behaviors.

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us!