I'm so genuine about what I do and how I want to do it, and I get anxiety when I'm pressured from the outside.
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.
Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.
I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.
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.
My anxiety stems from my lack of control no matter what.
What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.
I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.
Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.
I have a fear of tubes and tunnels. Going through any tunnel causes me great anxiety.
In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.
My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.
I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.
Sometimes he wished no one knew, and other times he wanted everyone to know