Rachel Caine Quotes

As a teenager you've got a lot of stuff going on all the time. It's hard to find a couple extra hours of sleep.

The fact that insomnia is associated with depression suggests that sleep might help us deal with emotionally stressful or otherwise disruptive events.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

I stress a lot, sometimes.

To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

The more nervous you get, the more worried you get about something... Maybe you just need to take a nap.

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.