Alexandra Daddario Quotes

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

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.

Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

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

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

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

Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

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

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

... too emotionally strung out.