Diora Baird Quotes

All worry is fear-based.

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

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.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

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

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

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.

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

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

I grew up loving horror films. But I had to step away since I didn't want all that negative stuff in my psyche. I didn't want to conceptualize those thoughts into my life.

I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I've helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema - anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology.

I've been a worrier for as long as I can remember.

We all feel anxious at times and acknowledging that only helps.

You can sit there and worry yourself sick if you're a mentally weak person.

Worry is just imagination used in an unproductive way.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I worry too much.

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

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, 'No, you just have anxiety.'

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.