“One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety, there is no time to luxuriate in abstractions. It’s just you and your mind, which has fists and is using them.… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“This is why therapists go to such lengths to urge their anxious patients away from intellectualization: The first step toward peace is disarmament.” — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Singin' In the Rain might get you through an anxious week or two, but it won't get you through an anxious life. For that… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“It's like I've had a stroke. Do you think I've had a stroke?" "I don't think you've had a stroke." "But how do you… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“By the tie I arrived at the clinic I was typically so demoralized I could barely stand. I was twenty-three years old and I… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“One of the things anxiety educates you in is how deeply physical thought can be, how concrete. In anxiety, there is no time to… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“...Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“If this all sounds melodramatic, well that, too, isn’t a bad metaphor for anxiety—as a kind of drama queen of the mind. If you… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“He isn’t trying to transform himself into something different; he’s trying to transform someone different back into himself.” — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“Freud was of the opinion that in fear a person is responding to a specific and immediate threat to physical safety while in anxiety… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
“To be anxious wasn’t shameful, it was a high calling. It was to be alive to life’s contradictions, more receptive to the true nature… — Daniel B. Smith Copy Share Image
