Sandra Bullock Quotes

People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

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.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

The is an intensity of anxiety here greater than I ever saw during the [Civil] war.

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

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.

All depression is fear-based.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.