Anxiety Quote by Daniel B. Smith

“Anxiety compels a person to think, but it is the type of thinking that gives thinking a bad name: solipsistic, self-eviscerating, unremitting, vicious.” quote by Daniel B. Smith — Download Open image

““Anxiety compels a person to think, but it is the type of thinking that gives thinking a bad name: solipsistic, self-eviscerating, unremitting, vicious.””

Daniel B. Smith

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“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 you need either a brain transplant (the only procedure of its kind, it has been said, in which it is better to be a donor than a recipient), a fully stocked bomb shelter, or a thorough…

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“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 know? How can you be sure I haven't had a stroke?" "What are the symptoms of a stroke?" "I don't know. Look them up. Look them up on line." "OK. Hold on...OK. Here it is. Do…

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“I felt so skinless at times! Things hit me so hard!”

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“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…

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“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. It may be dualistic and logically untenable to posit the situation as You v. Head; it may not make sense…

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“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…

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“He isn’t trying to transform himself into something different; he’s trying to transform someone different back into himself.”

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“Freud was of the opinion that in fear a person is responding to a specific and immediate threat to physical safety while in anxiety…

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“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…

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