Shura Quotes

I think I had my first anxiety attack at the age of 10. Then it sort of varied between being so bad that I barely dared to go out to periods where it almost vanished. It's sort of like an ebb and flow thing.

The longest I've gone without a panic attack is about two months. Even then I can feel it bubbling away under the surface.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I can work myself up into a fearful, paralyzing state of mind that can last for days, weeks even months where I feel mad, totally isolated and alone, overwhelmed and completely out of control.

I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

I was an emotional basket case.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.

I think I'm prone to panic.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

Underneath our nice, friendly facades there is great unease. If I were to scratch below the surface of anyone I would find fear, pain, and anxiety running amok. We all have ways to cover them up. We overeat, over-drink, overwork; we watch too much television.

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

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.

When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I'm having a heart attack.

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.

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