“We know that chronic high stress levels contribute to mental and physical disorders in later life; however, this process does not necessarily inhibit reproduction, and thus the cycle is perpetuated unless the environment changes as natural selection does not select for happiness, but only for survival and reproduction.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Female reproductive life history is linked to cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and endocrine alterations to physiology in ways that have not only short-term but also long-term and, in some cases, permanent effects.”
Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
“Emotions are like waves; they ebb and flow, they come and go. Accept your feelings without trying to hold onto the ones you want to keep or force away the ones you don't want. Remember, peace always returns.”
Source: CALM for Moms: Worry Less in Four Simple Steps
“. . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes.”
Source: Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness
“The sooner you can remember to bring your conscious awareness to your anxious thoughts and feelings, the sooner they can be released. Through practice and over time you’ll be able to recognize anxiety even before it arises.”
“As soon as you notice you’re anxious, bring your mind to your thoughts without judgment or labeling. Just observe what your mind is thinking about because it's almost always unconscious thinking that is taking place, and the best thing we can do is to turn that unconscious thinking into conscious thinking.”
“The real character of men and women comes to the surface under stress.
--Laura Ingalls Wilder: What Would You Do?April 5, 1918”
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks
“Success is a combinational lock whose secret passcode is 0000. When negativity, anger, anxiety, and stress are set to zero, the law of attraction works at its peak.”
Source: Quantraz
“As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered, "A loving husband and devoted father," though in reality, he jokes in "Riding Rockets," "I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.”
Source: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“The past does not really exist -- except in the brain.”
Source: Everyday Trauma: Remapping the Brain's Response to Stress, Anxiety, and Painful Memories for a Better Life