Laila Rouass Quotes

I worry too much.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

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

Once you start worrying, it's hard to stop.

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

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

Rational anxiety is when you're aware of the source of your anxiety. Like, if I have to host an award show or talk to millions of people on the radio, I'm going to feel anxious, and I know why. Irrational anxiety is when I'm leaving CVS, and there's a car behind me, and I'm wondering if he's following me home.

All worry is fear-based.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

Ever since I was a little girl, I've worried too much. It always bothers me because sometimes you end up worrying more about the worry and you are not resolving things that are right there in front of you. I have been like that all my life, and it's hard to change.

I'm claustrophobic.

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

Your mind can do wonders, so scary movies are not the healthiest for me because it does freak me out.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

I wake up every morning with the worst anxiety. I don't know why. I have, like, a problem.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

Every day there's a lot of things I block out, because if I start visualising things, I tend to go completely insane. I've always had anxiety issues, and it can totally overwhelm me and suck me under if I'm not keeping focused. I just think and think until I have a panic attack, and then it dies down.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

I don't get claustrophobic.

I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.