I enjoy working out because I struggle with anxiety, and exercise has been a great way for me to combat that.
There’s a constant anxiety that comes from having an innate sense of self, yet existing within a homogenised, aspirational culture.
I have anxiety every day about being pulled over.
I don’t know very many people in the art world, only socialise with the few I like, and have little time to gnaw my nails with anxiety about any criticism I hear about.
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
When I am writing, and occasionally achieve single focus and presence, I finally feel that is where I’m supposed to be. Everything else is kind of anxiety.
I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as ‘chemical imbalances in the brain,’ as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person’s brain cause depression and anxiety.
As fame becomes more democratized, we might all have to start struggling with the powers, anxieties, and responsibilities of being a minor celeb.
I’m learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don’t like. To me, I’ve learned so much about myself that now I’m a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn’t go away.
If you’ve invested money in buying a piece, you don’t want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety, when that great t-shirt you’ve just bought shrinks away to nothing.
I always thought I was depressive, and I only recently realized that I have more of an anxiety disorder than chronic depression.
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts.
I’m sure I would still have anxiety even if I got a bunch of surgery, and was the most conventionally attractive, cis-passing woman in the world; I think those are traumas that never go away.
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you’re under the water, and you can’t get out.
My anxiety has gotten worse as I’ve graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like ‘Rookie’ is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.
I have a lot of health anxiety.
My anxiety level of my own work and what I’m doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That’s fundamental.
A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don’t know what’s going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.
My anxiety was probably at an all-time high before ‘The Jump.’ I look back at pictures and think: ‘God, I’m really skinny there,’ because when you’re anxious you have that feeling in your stomach and don’t feel like eating.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
When I wanted to join the Pandoras, my mom had an anxiety attack.
A big thing with the heart issue is you can’t be up in here being stressed and having a lot of anxiety, so I had to do a lot of soul searching about how, ‘Why do certain things make me upset?’ and being more honest with myself. It’s actually made my marriage awesome, it’s made my friendships better.
In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen – the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
From, like, two, three years old, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and just wanted to be on stage with him. And my mum put me in dance classes, but I had a lot of social anxiety and didn’t want to be around people; I didn’t like to look at anyone in the eye, so that was a difficult thing to get over.
I live in the present because the past is regret, and the future is anxiety.
I have horrible anxiety.
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
When I get online, there’s this cycle of anxiety and narcissism that takes over, which is the part of me that I like the least.
I’m kind of an introvert, so I really do have to get over some anxiety to get on stage and connect with an audience. Once I do, it’s amazing, but it is a bit of a struggle.
‘I am a bad mother.’ Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I’m sure that other mothers are happily baking cookies, decorating trees, and finding perfect gifts for everyone.
I’m one of those guys who always has that kind of underlying anxiety kind of always creeping around in the background.
In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we’re pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker’s praise without anxiety.
Every day there’s a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I’ve always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I’m not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.
I was way more comfortable in front of strangers than I was in front of relatives. So when they would laugh at my dysfunctions or my anxiety, I felt less alone, and I still do it for the same reason.
Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn’t around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with ‘Jurassic Park’ and its primeval-dinosaur universe.
The emergence of the Atomic Age brought the previously inchoate and ‘free-floating’ anxiety of many people into sharp focus.
The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild – five names taken at random from among the R’s – told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
I really struggle with my anxiety, I have done since I was a child. When I look back into it, I don’t know what happened to make me the way I am, but it’s definitely affected my anxiety levels and I’ve spent most of my life looking for coping mechanisms.
Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.
When I put about my anxiety on social media, I decided I’m just going to be honest about it. I’m really glad I did it because I do think social media has taken over everyone’s lives right now, especially the young ones. Kids are rocking around with Instagram at 5.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Exercise is a great way to get rid of stress and anxiety. It clears the head and gets rid of all that stuff that is annoying you and really isn’t all that important. It filters out any grouchie-ness – it’s a great mental filter.
If I’m driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I’ve got Peggy with me, we’re cool.
That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.
In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn’t unhappiness or even depression, it’s anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
I’ve got anxiety and I don’t sleep so I’ve been trying to balance this insomnia where I stay awake for three or four days and you don’t want to really leave the house and stuff and you’ve got to go out and do a gig.
I didn’t learn about depression or anxiety at school. So when I had to go to my parents to say ‘I need help, I need to go to therapy,’ I felt like this weird, messed up kid. And I wasn’t, but I felt that way.
