Alice Sebold Quotes

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

I've never been one to indulge in out and out depression when it comes to songwriting.

When I'm not working, I think and I think when I get depressed.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking 'What am I going to talk about today?'

I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.

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

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.

I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned about depression and how to combat it. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

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.

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.

There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

I have been a depressed kid. I wanted to lead a quiet life, never wanted to be an actor.

Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return.

CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Specifically, my time in therapy has changed my life. It was such a relief to have a trained professional listen to my thoughts and help me positively restructure my thinking.

One thing I'd like to do better personally is decompress. Obviously when things don't go your way, you'll be thinking of it all the time.