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
“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 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
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 About 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 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
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
“We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer,” he writes in “The Coming Crisis… — Scott Stossel Life 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 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
“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
“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
“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
