Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

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

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

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.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

I'm trying to stay normal, that's all. But it's hard.

There are a lot of challenges we are facing, like how you are supposed to react to emotional stress.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.

Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

If you don't think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

In New York City, everybody goes into therapy.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.