Charlie Brooker Quotes

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Most people don't know that I have a huge phobia of bugs. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, but I just can't stand them! Even thinking about bugs makes me queasy.

The is an intensity of anxiety here greater than I ever saw during the [Civil] war.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

I hate heights and I hate every single creepy crawly going.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

I get stage fright really bad sometimes, so touring has been hard on me in a lot of ways. But despite that, I love performing.

All depression is fear-based.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

I have a major phobia of height and water.

Performing gives me so much anxiety.

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.

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 always nervous before playing a gig, to tell you the truth. It's what nearly did me in when I was with the Libertines. I just couldn't handle it.

When I had my first panic attack, I believed that it was a heart attack.

I didn't like flying - although not in a 'Mr T' way.

I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.

I never stop getting nervous. I'm nervous before every single show.

I love social media, but it made me quite anxious.

In the past, before games, I would near enough make myself ill. Nerves and stuff.

I do have a fear of heights.

I've only seen one snake out in the wilderness, not behind glass, and I froze. I literally couldn't move. So to say I have a fear of snakes would be true.

A lot of people like to judge you and make fun of you on the Internet, and people make you feel crazy whenever you're in a depression or having anxiety or having a panic attack.