When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of...

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait on the same page until I get an answer???Why??I'm not crazy,...

Greed is supported by an endless cast of what - ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

Faith is unlearning this senseless worries and misguided beliefs that keep us captive. It is far more complex than simply modifying behavior. Faith is rewiring the human brain. We are literally...

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

We're programmed to imagine bad things happening to us, as opposed to good things, even if the good are more likely. It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may...

Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything is changing, so no matter what problem or issue you are having in your life at the moment, it would also change sooner or later but of course you need to...

I made so many promises when I arrived here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and...

The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.

I kept waiting for the part where I'd finally know who I was - some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

When you're anxious, don't immediately trust your automatic thoughts because oftentimes these thoughts are irrational. Thoughts are not facts. They're just thoughts and sometimes don't need to be...

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

And I was upset to find how really reluctant I was to leave my little flat. It was as if I was almost frightened. Spasms of prophetic homesickness pierced me as I rearranged the china and dusted it...

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in...

But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was...