Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

I am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.

I worry about things constantly.

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

I'm anxious by nature, I think.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I just can't operate with any direct awareness of the pressures I might be under.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

What worries you, masters you.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

I worry a lot. I'm a catastrophizer by nature.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

I'm one of those people who lies awake all night and worries about all the horrible things that can go wrong, whether a comma was wrong.