Melody Beattie Quotes

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.

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.

Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

I worry too much.

Now, I'm so relaxed that I have to make myself nervous. I feel better when I'm second and third guessing myself over everything. I play with the mice in my head, all the time.

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

I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

If you struggle with putting things into perspective, just ask yourself two simple questions: What's the worst thing that could happen as a result of this? Will this matter in five years? Your answers should put a stop to cataclysmic thinking.

I over-think stuff a lot.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

I'll let myself obsess over things.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

It's really easy to catastrophise everything. I'd like to think as I've gotten older, I do a bit better with that.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

I went through the process of trying to convince myself I was not ill.

As long as you can worry about the stuff you can control, that's always best for you.

All worry is fear-based.

I get rational when I panic.

I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.

In the past, I would try to control so much, but that's just too stressful, and gives me too much anxiety and worry.

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.