Stress Reaction Quotes

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I left football, and overnight, I couldn't walk. I wet the bed even though the bathroom was only three meters away. It was 4 A.M., and I knew if I stood, my ankle would kill me.

If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

I've always been fascinated with adrenaline; it's saved my life more than once, and it's caused me to need it to save my life more than once. One of the most fascinating responses in human evolution, adrenaline sharpens your brain; it sharpens your responses.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

By 2012, I probably had, like, three stress reactions in my back. Two stress fractures in my fibula.

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

No one is depressed when they're being chased by a bear.

I'm interested in how we react when we're heavily pressed. When we're vulnerable and our survival is in question, how do we behave?

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.

Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.

I get really quiet when I'm nervous. I don't freak out.

Fear is where the information is.

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

The only time I flip out is when I'm not prepared. If I'm caught off guard, I can't help it; I start gasping for air.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

I've seen looks before that have literally taken my breath away - like someone on the red carpet and it's just like I can't even breathe, like you get some type of amazing anxiety.

I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.