Gretchen Bleiler Quotes

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Everybody handles pressure differently.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

I don't put myself under pressure.

I take a breath when I have to.

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

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'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

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

If I'm in a pressurised situation, I've learned to breathe, chill myself out and be calm.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

We stress out over things we can't control. So if something is a stressor, you can just simply take the power away from it by focusing on something else.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.

I try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.

I will continue going to the psychologist. It helps me to manage the pressure and emotions.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.