Earl Campbell Quotes

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.

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

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.

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.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

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.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I don't get claustrophobic.

'Nothing's Real' is about my first-ever panic attack, which I had about four months after getting my record deal.

The longest I've gone without a panic attack is about two months. Even then I can feel it bubbling away under the surface.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

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

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I'm always shook up and nervous and I've got the hospital record to prove it.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.