Melody Beattie Quotes

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

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

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Panic, not the task, is the enemy.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I think I'm prone to panic.

I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.

I'm much calmer as I get older, but I'm still just as capable of getting that strung-out stressed-out feeling of mental and spiritual unwellness.

I have horrible anxiety.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

I'm acutely aware of my anxiety.

I don't think anything affects my nerves.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.