Joko Beck Quotes

When I've gone through those periods of depression or anxiety, it's almost like your body is telling you constantly with these panics that the world really is the terrible place that you think it is, and all the things you fear are true about yourself have to be true.

I have anxiety.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

My nightmare is that I don't want to be OK.

There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

I've always been full of nervous energy, but I'm not really as happy as I seem.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.

News of Churchill. He is said to be in a very depressed state, spending the entire day smoking and drinking. This is the kind of enemy we need.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.