Anxiety Quotes

Medications used to treat psychiatric disorders are commonly referred to as psychotropic drugs. These drugs are commonly described by their major clinical application, for example, antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, anxiolytics, hypnotics, cognitive enhancers, and stimulants. A problem with this approach is that these drugs have multiple indicators. For example, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRls) are both antidepressants and anxiolytics, and the serotonin-dopamine antagonists (SDAs) are both anxiolytics and mood stabilizers.

~ Benjamin James Sadock

Survivors create survival mechanisms. Mine is pushing through. I push everything to the side, out of my line of vision, out of my mind and I focus relentlessly on my goal. Not sure what you’d call it, but who cares? I’m a fighter and that’s enough. I live each day happy to wake up each morning to my children’s bright eyes and warm cheeks. If pushing through gives me more days with the family I’ve created, with my writing, with my loves— fine by me. Call it what you want. I call it living. -Broken Places

~ Rachel Thompson

Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.

~ Rollo May

Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don't have options that make them stay comfortable. You won't grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Anxiety is the monster that resides within.

~ Karon Waddell

Horses get anxious when their expectations are not met.

~ Wendy Williams

Hey man let me ask you something. Do you sort of feel like you are carrying a low level anxiety about the existence of shark attacks? I mean, just the fact that it really happens, it's horrible, it's horrible enough that you kind of have to worry about it, at least a little bit, almost all the time...

~ Kevin Hooyman

That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

~ Corey Ann Haydu

This is the trouble with origin hunting. There are so many origins.

~ Daniel Smith

But a child is a sensitive instrument. You can hide the factual truth from a child, but you can't blanket influence. Your agitation will out, and over time it will mod your child's temperament as surely as water wear at rock.

~ Daniel Smith

Dissociative Identity Disorder is borne out of trauma. Many individuals who survive severe trauma will later experience marked anxiety, which may or may not relate to triggers from the original trauma. Individuals with DID are highly likely to have a great deal of anxiety.

~ Karen Marshall

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

~ Bill Mckenzie

Once in a while, he worries, but about what? Like the scattered clouds that drift over farmland in the afternoon, that sort of anxiety is what, ultimately?

~ Tang Fei

The problem of anxiety isn't that the organism responds to threats by near-instantly powering up. That's clearly a good thing, species-survival-wise. It's that sometimes the organism starts seeing threats too readily.

~ Daniel Smith

My mother took the measure of what could be built with the material she'd been given, and she built it.

~ Daniel Smith

We were forever one earthquake away from losing it all.

~ Alison Singh Gee

Many problems can be solved by a man not frightened by them.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

...as long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn't going to happen. Like some sort of anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.

~ Robert Kurson

Apprehension of a painful or disagreeable recognition made me tremble. I am confident that it took no distinctness of shape, and that it was the revival for a few minutes of the terror of childhood.

~ Charles Dickens

I wished that I had some other guardian of minor abilities.

~ Charles Dickens

Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Standing alone, walking my own path. Rearranging my thoughts. Pushing worries away. Climbing out of the fog, towards freedom of mind.

~ Tinaj. Richardson

A mentoring nurse to new doctors: Check your own pulse first.

~ Code Black

Meanwhile, back in the real world, my first instinct is a sort of stupid ducking motion I’ve learned from the movies, and I have the sure sense I’m going to be shot in the neck, where I feel particularly exposed and vulnerable.

~ Charles D'ambrosio

Equally as therapeutic was the fact that disaster did not come.

~ Daniel Smith

If you're afraid of heights, lean over a railing. If you're afraid of germs, lick a floor. But what do you do if your greatest fear is of being afraid?

~ Daniel Smith

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?

~ Frank Herbert

Do not be discourage by people who reject your true purpose. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Don't ever be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly rejected, spat upon and seen as an unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is and then they accept, celebrate and enjoy it.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them.

~ Anaïs Nin

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

~ Frank Herbert

Be not be discourage by the rejections. Do not stop because of anxiety; stop because you are done with the mission! Be not be down by the susurrant call of the masses to stop, halt or abort your true purpose when you are convinced within your innermost man of how true your purpose is. A true purpose is mostly to a greater extent rejected, spat upon and seen as unworthy cause by the masses until they come to a later realization of how true it is to be accepted

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A man may follow vanity as truly in the counting-house as in the theatre. If he be spending his life in amassing wealth, he passes his days in a vain show.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We will have to work hard to rest.

~ Kevin Deyoung

We live in the tension between neophillia, or attraction to new things, and neophobia, or fear of new things.

~ Jonathan Haidt

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the last five minutes.

~ Erik Larson

At that moment my shyness and anxiety all flooded back and I took a few steps back, and then sank to the ground; crouching, overwhelmed, covering my face. ‘What will he think? What if he already hates me? Maybe I was wrong in the first place? Maybe he didn’t like me at all.’ No matter how much I tried, I wasn’t able to produce a single positive thought to counter my panic. I wasn’t able to take a deep breath and relax. This day had been too eventful. I began to shake furiously, afraid of what was to come. ‘He hates me! He hates me!’ I thought over and over. Hot tears began to fall down my cheeks and I squeezed my eyes trying to stop them. My breathing quickened. What was I doing? I had said what I wanted, proudly, trying to be something to him but here I was: a total mess.‘What kind of a confession ends in a panic attack? GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!’ I thought furiously, my efforts rewarded with futility. The world started to spin, my mouth becoming numb for reasons I couldn’t understand, almost as if to prevent me from panicking aloud. As if I had the friggin’ courage.

~ Anja Owona Okoa

During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

~ Erik Larson

She became an illusion of herself. It was easier to cope with people that way

~ Tina J. Richardson

I tried to write how I felt. The pen remained frozen. The paper stayed white and empty,while my brain was dark and full

~ Tina J. Richardson