I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.
I had no idea there was such a thin line between sanity and insanity. I got pushed right to the edge by tragedy in my life, and I couldn't stand up; I couldn't recover.
There is a history of mental breakdowns in my family. It will never happen to me but it has happened to others in the family.
They say that moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Death in the family is the second most stressful, and moving your dead spouse is the third.
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.
If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.
I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful!
Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.
My mum has had heart-attacks, a stroke, and it all coincided with me being called up for Scotland so the timing was not good. Thankfully, she is a great woman.
People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day, those were the times when you were most on a high.
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.
The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.
I always hate starting tours, especially when it coincides with an album coming out.
I'm so not a Bridezilla.
There are people that regardless of what it is, if it's something that's stressful, whatever it may be, they don't eat, they lose a lot of weight, a divorce, they get real thin. I'm the opposite.
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.
The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
Service members are more likely to have PTSD, but it's common in the general population as well.
