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 Always 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 Always Copy Share Image
As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed. — Scott Stossel Attacks 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 Around 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 About 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 Actually 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 About 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
“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 Time 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
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 About 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
Jerome Kagan, the Harvard psychologist, only hires people who are anxious, because he thinks they are better and more conscientious workers. I… — Scott Stossel Afraid 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 Anxiety 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
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 About 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
There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who… — Scott Stossel Afraid 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
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
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 Anxiety 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 Afternoon 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
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
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor… — Scott Stossel Airport 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 About Copy Share Image
I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about. — Scott Stossel About 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 grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. — Scott Stossel Anxiety 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
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 Any 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 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
“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
“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
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed… — Scott Stossel Abandoned Copy Share Image
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