Susan Minot Quotes

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

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

I was going into a slump during 'Ironman.' I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn't all the way there.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.

The number one root of all illness, as we know, is stress.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother's illness. She had Parkinson's disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time... All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn't want to get trapped.

Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

I'm a big believer in doing everything you can and everything in your power to change the outcome. But health is one of those things you can't control, and it's a very scary thing for me.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I have alopecia. My hair fell out when I was in college and I didn't take it so well.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

I have horrible anxiety.

I am 17 years old and a senior in high school. I am also, like thousands of other people living on this planet, sick.

I was a player for 20 years. When there was something bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual standard. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?