“As I sit on the folding metal chair I begin to fear getting up. As the finale approaches, I experience outright panic. What if my feet no longer move? What if my muscles lock?”— Joan Didion, amazon.comTagged: anxiety in literature, what anxiety feels like, Panic, worry, Emotion
“But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window — maybe rearrange all the furniture.”— Raymond Carver, amazon.comTagged: what anxiety feels like, Literature, anxiety in literature, Panic, nervousness
“I need you to understand that I am not being dramatic, but I make myself believe I am offending you or bothering you.”— Stefanie Manzi, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Anxiety, dramatic, Offensive
“Anxiety is a girl with my face, but not my body.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Poetry, Anxiety, Social Anxiety
“The memory of the meeting is still uppermost in his mind. He is convinced he made a fool of himself and that everyone in the room saw how afraid he was when he spoke and how stupid he acted in their presence.”— Thomas A. Richards, socialanxietyinstitute.orgTagged: Social Anxiety