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Scott Stossel

Scott Stossel Biography

Journalist

Scott Stossel, born on August 7, 1969, is an accomplished American journalist. He has extensive experience in the field of journalism and served as the editor and executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Stossel is known for his in-depth investigative reporting and insightful analysis of complex issues.

Scott Stossel, born on August 7, 1969, is an accomplished American journalist. He has extensive experience in the field of journalism and served as the editor and executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Stossel is known for his in-depth investigative reporting and insightful analysis of complex issues.

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“Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.”

Feels Wells Fighting Existence Situation Alive Missing Edges Instance Humiliation Revealing Success And Failure Living On Razors Adulation Near Misses

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“Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.”

People Thinking Kind I Can Seems Situation Stressful Stressful Situations

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“Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.”

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“There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.”

Want Giving May Hard Differences Figures Personality Giving Up Elements Anxiety Aspect Foresight Empathetic Pathology I May Not Be

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“Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.”

Feels Hard Easy Middle Anxiety Misery Terror Anxiety Attacks

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“To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.”

People Ifs May Seems Calm Surface Ducks Peers Beneath The Surface Paddling

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“To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.”

Soul Home Fighting Brain Personality Anxiety Flight My Soul Cells Genes Molecules Reflexes Brain Cells Ions

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“It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.”

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Born: August 7, 1969
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 8

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