“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
“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