Scott Stossel Quotes

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

News of Churchill. He is said to be in a very depressed state, spending the entire day smoking and drinking. This is the kind of enemy we need.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

I've been living with anxiety much, much, much longer than I've been with living with alcoholism, that's for sure. I already knew from the sheer numbers and all the data that I'm not alone. I mean, the biggest mistake I did was spending most of my life thinking I was the only person who felt this way.

I had every stress-related illness you can get.

I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.

I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

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

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

Despair often breeds disease.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow.