Seneca the Younger Quotes

Maybe there is something wrong with me as I don't feel any pressure or fear.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

I've had to find my sanity.

I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I'm not a tortured soul.

I have had periods of depression in my life.

I try and act like I'm all there. But I'm not!

I go as hard as I can when I'm anxiety-free.