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 Anxiety 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you… — Scott Stossel Access 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
Even though my mom herself was anxious, I think she didn't know how to deal with it in her kid, and my… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor… — 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 Agony Copy Share Image
“For the social phobic, any kind of performance—musical, sporting, public speaking—can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within.… — Scott Stossel Confidence 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
“Some social phobics find even positive attention to be aversive. Think of the young child who bursts into tears when guests sing… — Scott Stossel Fear 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
“We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer,” he writes in “The Coming Crisis… — Scott Stossel Consumer Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're… — Scott Stossel Adulation 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 Anxiety Copy Share Image
During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
