Dick York Quotes

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

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

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

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.

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

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.

I think I'm prone to panic.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

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

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 used to hyperventilate, but I don't do that anymore.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

It's very scary having something wrong with your head.

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

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

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react to these events with depression, anxiety, and shyness. Indeed, about a quarter of Kagan’s high-reactive kids suffer from some degree of the condition known as “social anxiety disorder,” a chronic and disabling form of shyness.