Martha Beck Quotes

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

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 not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.

We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

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.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

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

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

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

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

Most people try to isolate themselves and pretend like things are all good when a lot of times, that's not how it is.

Some people feel pressure; some people don't.