“I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part -- it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.”— Hugh Laurie, azquotes.com
“I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.”— Aubrey Plaza, azquotes.com
“You are not wrong for feeling anxious or having a panic attack. You are not crazy for having racing thoughts or feeling like your heart is going to explode. It happens to a lot of people.”— Kate Dolan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is drowning. It can look and feel different in everyone, but there’s one shared commonality. It sucks.”— Kris Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is being disconnected from the present moment, other people, or yourself.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, anxiety can be so debilitating, that you can’t muster enough energy to go out. No matter how excited you were for the event beforehand, when the day actually comes and your anxiety is in full force, you say no.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“What’s so important to know is that the anxiety you experience is not your fault. You didn’t cause this. You did nothing so horrible as for the universe to force this on you as a punishment.”— Nicole Vetrano, thoughtcatalog.com
“My happiness is trying to catch me but my anxiety is running too fast.”— Dagmara Cielecka, instagram.com
“Speak positive affirmations into fruition. For instance, if you feel frustrated or anxious, you can say, ‘I am calm, and I can work through my situation to arrive at a positive outcome,’ or ‘I am at peace with all things in my life, and success finds me easily.'”— Tisha Marie Payton, amazon.com
“People with anxiety always feel alone in their own head, and also hate to feel like a burden to others.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Twenty-somethings who don’t feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“An anxiety disorder is when those run-of-the-mill butterflies become a chronic daily experience.”— Lindsay Holmes, huffingtonpost.com
“The last thing that will calm down an anxious person is telling them ‘calm down.’”— Lindsay Holmes, huffingtonpost.com
“Twenty somethings who don’t feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.”— Meg Jay, amazon.com
“As I venture into this period of my life, sometimes I feel sad; I feel scared or anxious, elated or crazy. Sometimes, I feel all of these emotions at once. But I don’t feel in crisis or afflicted. Because being in your 20s doesn’t have to mean you’re either in ‘the best time of your life’ or in a qu…”— Hannah Cranston, thoughtcatalog.com
“But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“She was depressed. She was anxious. Because she was depressed and because she was anxious she drank too much. This was called medicating herself.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com