I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I…

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events…

— Siri Hustvedt

In my experience, anxiety disorders don't get better on their own, in fact they spread.

— Rebecca Front

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

“Stress-related health issues, anxiety disorders, and cases of depression have skyrocketed over the past thirty years, despite the fact that everyone has a flat-screen…

— Mark Manson

“Anxiety disorders are easily the most common mental illnesses, affecting nearly one in five adult Americans in any given year and 30 percent of people”

— Henry Emmons

“Typically people with clinical depression wake up in the middle of the night and can’t fall back to sleep, whereas patients with anxiety disorders…

— Gary Small

“It’s been my experience that people always assume that generalized anxiety disorder is preferable to social anxiety disorder, because it sounds more vague and…

— Jenny Lawson

“Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to…

— Henry Emmons

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to…

— Jeffrey Kluger

It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.…

— Boyd K. Packer

I admit that I suffer from anxiety. This anxiety makes me latch onto you because I'm afraid of losing you... but I've never had…

— BD

I suffer from anxiety, moments of depression. I'm in my head so much, and I'm thinking so much, I'm playing a tug-of-war within my…

— Khalid

Part of therapy is the hope. You need to feel like there's hope, warmth and happiness somewhere in there otherwise you'll be more lost…

— The Last Skeptik

All Americans suffer from anxiety; it's a national disease.

— Helen Nielsen

I suffer from anxiety and partial depression.

— Jill Zarin