“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.” WantGivingMayHardDifferencesFiguresPersonalityGiving UpElementsAnxietyAspectForesightEmpatheticPathologyI May Not Be Author:Scott Stossel
“When I had independence, it was a constant battle within me to figure out when am I on my own. And also the insecurity that my life engendered, especially as a freelance cartoonist, kept me in a constant state of anxiety as to whether I am going to be able to meet my financial obligations.” StatesAbleMy OwnFiguresBattleAnxietyIndependenceConstantFinancialObligationInsecurityCartoonist Author:Al Jaffee
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.” PeopleMatterEnoughWorryFiguresAnxietyBreathsMy FriendshipMatter Of Time Author:Shauna Niequist
“I did not write about that kind of insecurity and anxiety between myself and my brothers, because my father was the dominant male figure as I was growing up in that home.” WritingKindHomeFatherGrowing UpGrowingFiguresBrotherAnxietyMalesMy BrotherInsecurityDominant Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"” IfsFeelsWritingTryingStoriesSchoolLawYoungToo MuchPiecesFiguresAnxietyGood StoryLaw SchoolEmbarking Author:George Saunders
“Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.” MenWellsDifferentFeelingsRememberCertainTurnsFallFeltPerfectPartyEmotionFiguresNew YorkChangedAnxietyPressureSafetyShiningAffectionAlcoholTonightFall BackFiance Author:Emily Giffin
“When one of my Japanese teacups is broken, I imagine that the real cause was not the careless hand of a maid but the anxieties of the figures inhabiting the curves of that porcelain. Their grim decision to commit suicide doesn't shock me: they used the maid as one of us might use a gun.” RealUseHandsMightUsedCausesDecisionImagineFiguresBrokenAnxietyGunSuicideCommitShockImagine ThatCurvesCarelessGrimMaidsPorcelainMight Use Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)” ThinkingKnowsNeedsFeelsSelfHardCausesLevelsCommonBrainImpossibleBloodFiguresActivityAnxietyJudgmentLowsTestsWeightConfusionFeel GoodManageSelf ControlForgetfulnessDecreaseHormonesAbnormalLethargyThyroidAntibodiesAnxiety DepressionBlood Tests Author:Daniel Amen
“Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears.” WorldMayMadeSoulSelfMightActionLyingUniverseLiteratureExistenceMistakeEventsFiguresBearsAnxietyHarderMiserableFallenGentlemanIsolationTrapsVulgarConsolationInsignificantDiscontentGreat Souls Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch
“The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.” FeelsCuttingFiguresAnxietyConcernedVanityDisplayShowing Off Author:Andre Gide