“It isn’t being fearless that is sexy. It’s having the fear, feeling the fear, and saying, ‘I’m going to set this aside and go forward anyway.’ That woman is sexy. She is truly living life.”— eHarmony Staff, eharmony.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
“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
“Until you have spent 30 minutes lining up shampoo bottles in the shower because if you don’t, your mom will be hit by a car, you have no idea what living with OCD is like.”— Hannah Pemberton, huffingtonpost.com
“It’s possible that a distrust of oneself ― which could play out as a fear that deep down, you are dangerous and potentially harmful to others ― and the extreme fear of guilt may work hand-in-hand to create the conditions for OCD to take root.”— Carolyn Gregoire, huffingtonpost.com
“One thing which I can't stress enough is that OCD is completely nonsensical and will not listen to reason. This is one of the most frightening things about having it. I knew that to anyone I told, there are Salvador Dali paintings that make more sense.”— Joe Wells, amazon.com
“It’s thoughts like that that trigger the need to fix or clean. It is not because something not being the way you prefer it, bugs you. It is because something terrible will happen if you do not fix it, and the thought does not go away until you make sure what ever it is is the way it has to be. Then…”— Hayden Carroll, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes, I’ll even cancel plans, because I feel like something bad is going to happen if I leave the house. The worst case scenario is always the first scenario I think of.”— Holly Riordan, 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
“Whether anxiety is a frequent or seldom visitor, it has the power to leave you exhausted, scared, and paralyzed.”— Kate Dolan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety is waking up with a pit in your stomach for no understandable reason. Anxiety is hiding and burying parts of yourself for fear someone, someone like you, won’t get it.”— Kris Miller, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m often scared to speak out. What if I’m judged the way I was before? Will people view me differently?”— Carla Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anxiety makes you freeze and overthink every single thing that happens to you. It creates this crippling feeling that comes over your body while you sit there in silence wondering what went wrong.”— Carly Riegler, thoughtcatalog.com
“Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Now I welcome vulnerability with arms wide open. I allow vulnerability to be my greatest asset because it’s something most people are afraid of. Most people are afraid to pour their feelings out and put them on display for the world because they are going to be judged and critiqued, but from being v…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being vulnerable is not a bad thing on its own. Again, it’s a gift, not something to be feared.”— Kimia Madani, thoughtcatalog.com
“Strength comes from your vulnerability, and being able to step outside of your pride, your protective shell, your fear and say, ‘I need help.’”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com