Marian Keyes Quotes

You cannot escape anxiety … but I have faith that you will rise above your fears.

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.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

I don't torture myself.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be.

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

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 don't look at myself as suffering.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

When I'm not depressed, I draw strength and beauty from depression; when I am depressed, I find no such things.

Stress and worry, they solve nothing. What they do is block creativity. You are not even able to think about the solutions. Every problem has a solution.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

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

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.

I used to take life so seriously; I got so stressed.

Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.

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.'