Susan Cain Quotes

Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic.

I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I knew I was weird by the time I was four. I knew I wasn't like other boys. I knew I was more fearful. I didn't like the rough and tumble most boys were into. I knew I was a sissy.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

I'm one of those people that if I go to a party, I can't remember my mother's name because I'm so nervous in a social situation.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.

I am not the performing type. I was the one who would cry, throw up or pass out.

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.

Sometimes I have a little social anxiety, and meeting people can be a challenge for me.

I am very shy. It's the most stressful thing to be in the public eye.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

I'm overemotional.

I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'