Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I don't sleep well. I'm a very nervous - by my nature - anxious, almost paranoid person and reporter.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably - small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I have thoughts - obtrusive thoughts and rituals that have to - it's like a broken re - a skipping record. And if these thoughts or these triggers happen to me through maybe shaking a hand or just a thought or just - then I can't get past it and move on with my life.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.

I'm scared of the gym - I see all these machines, and I'm like, 'What is that? What am I supposed to do?'

I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

Worry is one of the most destructive scourges of mankind.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Write what you’re scared about.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

When everyone has high expectation for you, it can attack your insecurities.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.