"Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years……" — Scott Stossel
"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 sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety."
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20 Quotes by Scott Stossel
Scott Stossel has 20 quotes on this site.
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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…
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To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala”—the home of the fight-or-flight reflex—“is as limiting…
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It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern…
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During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations…
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Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
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I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have,…
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When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off…
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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned…
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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of…
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To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my…
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