Sharon Horgan Quotes

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

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

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.

I hate heights, that's the most terrifying thing for me.

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that.

Having a phobia has changed me.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

I'm claustrophobic.

Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

To be honest, I'm scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.

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