Patricia Richardson Quotes

There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

I think sometimes I don't realise how much the pressure gets to me.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

Seven years without a break really takes a toll on you, and you don't even realize it. You're affected by other people, and after a while, sometimes they have love for you, and sometimes they don't.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

Compassion Fatigue

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

A three-month training camp writes you off, I wake up and I literally can't get out of bed.

I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in all directions, fighting to keep all these obligations circling in the air above me. It was only a matter of time before something fell.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.

Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.

The challenge in my life really is keeping the balance between feeling creatively energized and fulfilled without feeling overwhelmed and like I'm in the middle of a battlefield.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

I've got to take a break, to be honest. I'm not even going to lie.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

I give and give, and sometimes I can't find me. I'm sure many moms and wives go down that same rabbit hole.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.