Mariella Frostrup Quotes

There are so many things we are afraid of, thinking that if we confront them, they will kill us. Most of it goes back to your infancy.

I definitely didn't want children, because my childhood was not a very happy time.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

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.

For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.

There's something about most phobias where there's a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

What interests me is what children go through while growing up.

Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.

There is a psychic cost children bear when they grow up in fear.

Most of us have unhealthy thoughts and emotions that have either developed as a result of trauma or hardships in their childhood, or the way they were raised.

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 always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

It's a struggle every day, to stay present, not to become that...eight year old who was bullied and chased home from school. Some days I wake up and it's like I'm eight years old again. And I'm scared for my life, and I don't know if I'm going to be beaten up that day.