“Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.” AnxietyMental IllnessPanic AttacksA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Book:A Quiet Kind of Thunder Source: A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“Here are three separate but similar things: shyness, introversion and social anxiety. You can have one, two or all three of these things simultaneously. A lot of the time people thing they're all the same thing, but that's just not true. Extroverts can be shy, introverts can be bold, and a condition like anxiety can strike whatever kind of social animal you are. Lots of people are shy. Shy is normal. A bit of anxiety is normal. Throw the two together, add some brain-signal error - a NO ENTRY sign on the neural highway from my brain to my mouth perhaps, though no one really knows - and you have me.” AnxietyMental IllnessSocial AnxietyPanic AttackA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Book:A Quiet Kind of Thunder Source: A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until everything starts to feel heavy. It builds; it becomes something physical that clutches at my insides and squeezes out the air and the blood.” DepressionAnxietyMental IllnessPanic AttackA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Book:A Quiet Kind of Thunder Source: A Quiet Kind of Thunder
“With lightning, you're never really sure if that's what it was; it's just a flash. Thunder, you know. You feel it.' 'You can keep your quiet thunder. I'll keep the exciting lightning.” A Quiet Kind Of Thunder Author:Sara Barnard
“Mum has had an anxious daughter for sixteen years and she still doesn't seem to get the concept of little victories. The spending an evening where I wasn't feeling sick every time someone asked me a question is actually a really big deal [...] There's no such thing as getting your hopes up if you're anxious. Little victories are everything in a world where worst-case scenarios are on an endless loop in your head.” DepressionAnxietyMental IllnessA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Author:Sara Barnard
“Chronic anxiety is a form of illness. It's not something you bring on yourself by how you feel on any given day. It isn't about happiness and sadness. Anxiety doesn't care if you're happy or not, just like cancer doesn't care if you're happy.” AnxietyA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Author:Sara Barnard
“Sometimes things, like car accidents and the weather, just happen. And maybe that's the scariest thing of all.” A Quiet Kind Of Thunder Author:Sara Barnard
“I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn't care how many years it's been.” PainHurtLossGriefDepressionA Quiet Kind Of Thunder Book:A Quiet Kind of Thunder Source: A Quiet Kind of Thunder