Peter McWilliams Quotes

I was born with a nervous breakdown.

Panic is our great enemy.

I am stressed because once I am flattened out so thin to be able to slide under a doorway, I may never be able to ever be unflattened so I could be regular sized again.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

I have horrible anxiety.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

I want to keep my sanity.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

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