“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com
“Anxiety makes me feel like I have to apologize for everything. Apologize for thinking too much. Apologize for talking too much. Apologize for texting too much.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are not stress...you are experiencing stress. You are not anxiety...you are experiencing anxiety. You are not fear...you are experiencing fear. You can recognize the fact that you are not your emotions and simply accept the experience of that emotion and move right through it.”— Mike Basevic, amazon.com
“Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.”— Chris Prentiss, amazon.com
“Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.”— Abhijit Naskar, amazon.com
“Whether we know it or choose to admit it, we are either an Encourager or a Discourager. We each make a choice as to which type we will be… every day. Discouragers bring ‘stresspools.’ I call any of those places that add unnecessary stress and aggravation ‘stresspools.’ They are just as stinky and ro…”— Cathy Burnham Martin, amazon.com
“Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.”— T. F. Hodge, amazon.com
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”— Dr. Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Checking isn’t reassuring. Worrying is disturbing. Living in constant doubt causes anxiety and distress.”— June Silny, lifehack.org
“It can be stress or anxiety related. It can even be triggered by boredom.”— Audra Attaway, huffingtonpost.com
“OCD may perceive guilt to be more threatening than most people do, leading them to find it intolerable. Any thought or impulse that might inspire guilt, then, is met with extreme anxiety and with attempts to ‘cleanse’ oneself of the mental intrusion.”— Carolyn Gregoire, huffingtonpost.com
“me: if you're dead you dont have to do homework or get stressed over school so it would eliminate anxiety.”— Unknown, aureus.co.vu
“The intrusive thought. The needling lack of logic. The obsession. The anxiety. They do not yield, but you can get better at ignoring it.”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see, my OCD serves as a weird kind of security blanket. It (very) temporarily calms my anxiety, makes me feel like I have control over the things I clearly cannot control.”— Cat Aleman, thoughtcatalog.com
“They will never know what it feels like to second guess every word you say, to be extra cautious and always mentally prepared for something to go wrong. They won’t know how we’re always expecting the worst — from ourselves, and others.”— Snigdha Chopra, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s isn’t exciting. It isn’t as poetic, or romantic as it seems to be on television and books. It doesn’t just ‘go away’ when love or some miracle worker comes along. It stays. It lingers.”— Snigdha Chopra, thoughtcatalog.com
“Having no control over your own mind, your thoughts, your worries is scary. It’s one of the worst feelings in the world, especially when everything could be perfectly fine, but your mind tricks you into believing everything’s so wrong.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com
“No matter how many times you tell yourself to calm down, tell yourself everything’s fine – you still can’t help but worry about the ‘what if.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com
“People underestimate what anxiety really is. You want to call those who overthink everything, or make up scenarios in their head crazy, but you don’t understand: those with anxiety can’t control it.”— Hayley Greenwood, thoughtcatalog.com