Scott Stossel Quotes

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• Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're…
• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.
• 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 that my personality…
• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally…
• During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
• Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
• I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10,…
• When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport.…
• I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
• To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
• Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only…
• To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is…
• An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
• As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.
• One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who…
• Hugh Grant, who several times has announced that he was thinking of retiring from acting, has said that he suffers from panic attacks when the…
• Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live…
• Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would…
• People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the…
• All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but will…

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