Dorothy Dix Quotes

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

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

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally.

People who suffer from anxiety are very good at hiding it. That can often be a contributor to the anxiety because the gap between the internal perception and the external impression can feel so large.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I have a lot of nightmares.