Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Quotes

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

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 try not to take pressure because that it just stresses you out.

Moving to New York City and doing what I do, social anxiety is a really ridiculous kind of curse to have. But I met people along the way who deal with it - performers as well - and they are learning to deal with it daily and deal with it in different ways.

I don't have time to be depressed.

At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.

I've found that a combination of therapy and medication, along with lifestyle choices like eating better and exercising regularly, helps me cope well with my anxiety.

My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.

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

My psychologist told me I have to control my emotions and be more positive. She's taught me to stop the negative thoughts during the matches with some exercises. That's helped me make an improvement.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

When I am not acting, I am in depression, and then I do depression management.

I want to keep my sanity.

I find a way to have stress because I need it.

With anxiety and depression, what's been most helpful to me has been learning a toolbox - a set of skills I can use when I'm in periods of low mood or feel an anxiety attack coming on. When Years & Years took off it felt like I needed that toolbox really quickly.

What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy.

I will continue going to the psychologist. It helps me to manage the pressure and emotions.

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.