Survivors often develop an exaggerated need for control in their adult relationships. It’s the only way they feel safe. They also struggle with commitment—saying yes in a relationship means being trapped in yet another family...

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

You haunt my days and dreams.

The speaker indicts our unbelieving responses to Jesus’ COMMAND not to worry. We take it less seriously than His commands about overt actions and justify ourselves that we would not worry if He kept us...

Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) —...

Anxiety kicked in. I lacked people skills all my life. Any normal human interaction was foreign to me. I don’t know what to say, to not look like a major dork or something. I am...

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.

There is a sense of anxiety to hurry up and get started and get back on track.

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

How hard it is to now believe that these strong, merciless chains of fear and hopelessness, rendering the limbs of my mind motionless, were once innocuous mere threads.” -Mehul.M

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org

Mary Lou suddenly realizes that Mack calls the temperature number because he is afraid to talk on the telephone, and by listening to a recording, he doesn’t have to reply. It’s his way of pretending...

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.

Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life — I was an average mixer,...

Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead to the development of dissociative identity disorder (DID), other dissociative disorders personality disorders,...

Underneath my imagination there didn’t seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved my pain and sadness. Besides that, there were only twisted steel threads of axiety, woven through my body...

Can all you worries add a single moment to your life? Of course not!

I’ve gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of ‘what other people think’ is something I’m making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I’ll have my experience...

-what’s really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it’s a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to...

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

He felt like normal. Filled with anxiety, dread, sure. But even that wasn’t unusual…

When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn’t...

Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything is changing, so no matter what problem or issue you are having inyour life at the moment, it would also change sooner or later but of course you...

It could increase people’s anxiety, … Extending the trading hours is going to keep them focusing on the market.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme —...

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Never give up on someone with a mental illness. When “I” is replaced by “We”, illness becomes wellness.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can’t be harmed by it.

as the determinants of high status keep shifting, so, too, naturally, will the triggers of status anxiety be altered.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or...

When I feel threatened, vulnerable, or insecure, whether it from simply walking into a room of unknown people, meeting someone for the first time, an unexpected or expected confrontation, or doing something new, I affirm...

There’s as much benefit to wishing the world away as there is in demanding a bud to bloom,” responded Iphigenia as she patted Prue’s hand gently. “It’s better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps...

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

…Anxiety and panic happen to be mundane phenomena, i.e., even when they are caused by extraordinary things like war and rape, they tend to occur when things are ordinary and predictable and relatively stable, against...

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

… rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,…

Our opponents took advantage of our anxiety. They had one attack in the first half, scored and then made good use of the situation.

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can’t get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.

We are at the tail end of a decline in infant mortality that began just over a century ago. Babies no longer wander into open hearths or are mauled by marauding pigs. We have vaccines,...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the source of modern man’s power. With it he has transformed the planet, annihilated space, and trebled the world’s population. But...

When you’re betting for tiles in an archery contest, you shoot with skill. When you’re betting for fancy belt buckles, you worry about your aim. And when you’re betting for real gold, you’re a nervous...

The narrator, a time traveler from 2011, scoffs at the despondency caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis — especially the drug and alcohol use of a resident of 1962 he supposedly cares about. Then he...