Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.

Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.

I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.

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.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

Pressure makes people react in different ways. Some people plunge in, and others take the way out.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

If I start panicking a little bit, I just talk through it with somebody.

Even a mother - Jewish or not - can't worry about everything. So it is important that we limit our worries to real as opposed to imaginary risks.

I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.

The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

I'm someone who's quite anxious and stresses out a lot and gives the impression that I'm laid back.