I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about. — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Some eighty years ago, Freud proposed that anxiety was “a riddle whose solution would be bound to throw a flood of light… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“But none of these treatments have fundamentally reduced the underlying anxiety that seems woven into my soul and hardwired into my body… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“According to recent epidemiological data, the “lifetime incidence” of anxiety disorder is more than 25 percent—which, if true, means that one in… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“More than a few people, some of whom think they know me quite well, have remarked that they are struck that I,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“But even drugged to the gills, I remained filled with dread about the impending book tour, so I went also to a… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“for the existentialists, what generated anxiety was not the godlessness of the world, per se, but rather the freedom to choose between… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“While there is substantial evidence that specific phobias—particularly those based on fears that would have been adaptive in the state of nature,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting as saying… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“It is a fact—I say this from experience—that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“According to recent epidemiological data, the “lifetime incidence” of anxiety disorder is more than 25 percent—which, if true, means that one in four of… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me. — Scott Stossel Copy Share
“The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture. Even… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would enable me… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might. — Scott Stossel Copy Share
“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If you cut… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to… — Scott Stossel Copy Share
![“Hippocrates, the ancient Greek doctor, concluded in the fourth century B.C. that pathological anxiety was a straightforward biological and medical problem. “If you cut open the head [of a mentally ill individual],” Hippocrates wrote, “you will find the brain humid, full of sweat and smelling…” quote by Scott Stossel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/219/scott-stossel-12031_ancient-greek_hippocrates-the-ancient-greek-doctor-con_1077016.jpg)
