Sharon Van Etten Quotes

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.'

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 talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

It's not onstage as often anymore, but whenever I got anxious, I used to talk a lot more, and I wouldn't even know what I was saying... it was so bad. If I just talk myself through something, even if it's just talking about nothing, it usually gets me out of it.

Tapping therapy is absolutely brilliant. Stephen Gately from Boyzone, God rest his soul, told me about it. It's just a little tap that focuses the mind away from that wave of panic and adrenalin that shoots into your body.

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But - thanks in part to ongoing therapy - they're happening less and less.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

When I was younger, there weren't many people that were open about going through anxiety, so I never knew how to deal with it.

I have struggled with anxiety and depression since I was a teenager.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

I take a breath when I have to.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experiences are replaced with positive ones.