"To say that my anxiety is reducible to……" — Scott Stossel
"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 reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them."
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20 Quotes by Scott Stossel
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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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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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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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