Elizabeth Vargas 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.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

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

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

Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.

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 know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

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

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

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

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.