Patty Duke Quotes

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

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

I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'

I've never been to a psychiatrist so have never gotten to the point where I could be formally diagnosed with any disorder. But I definitely have anxiety.

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.

I've had paranoid panic attacks.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

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

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

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.

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

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

I used to have panic and anxiety attacks.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antidepressants over the long run.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable.

I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.

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

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.