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
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
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
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
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
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
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a… — Scott Stossel Beneath the surface 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
It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy,… — Scott Stossel Arise Copy Share Image
“Meditation led to decreased density of the amygdala, a physical change that was correlated with subjects’ self-reported stress levels—as their amygdalae got… — Scott Stossel Buddhist monk 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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition. — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
