Lynda Barry Quotes

... too emotionally strung out.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

I don't know what anxiety is like anymore.

I was an emotional basket case.

I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.

Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

These visits make me sick, and I really think they will make me crazy.

The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Usually, I work every day, seven days a week. When I go three days without writing, my body aches with anxiety; my mood is irritable. My night dreams grow wild with unconscious invention.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I just think too much sometimes.

I can tell you from experience that when you get that pent-up and crazed, it can be distracting.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

Time flies when you're on an emotional roller coaster.

I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

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