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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally… — 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
As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed. — 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
“But less so than I did before. Not long ago in my own therapy with Dr. W., we moved gingerly into “imaginal”… — Scott Stossel Long ago Copy Share Image
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 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
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly… — 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my… — Scott Stossel Adulation 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety 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 Ancient greek Copy Share Image
I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Meditation led to decreased density of the amygdala, a physical change that was correlated with subjects’ self-reported stress levels—as their amygdalae got… — Scott Stossel Buddhist monk Copy Share Image
“I smile gently while churning inside and thinking about what I’ve learned is a signature characteristic of the phobic personality: “the need… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Jerome Kagan, the Harvard psychologist, only hires people who are anxious, because he thinks they are better and more conscientious workers. I… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“A study published by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011 found that subjects who practiced meditation for an average of just… — Scott Stossel Buddhist monk 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a… — Scott Stossel Beneath the surface 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 Acting Copy Share Image
There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone… — 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 Anatomy 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 Anxiety 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
“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32… — Scott Stossel Illness 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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety 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
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