Lisa Cholodenko Quotes

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

There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

Too much tension can do bad things to you.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

Well, Doctor, I don't have the diagnosis on that. I'll be sure to do a physical checkup and get back to you.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

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.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was like, 'Oh, God, this is not right.' When I was 25, my brother and I finally told our dad we had to take her to the doctor.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?'

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.