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Anxiety Is Strong Enough To Break You, But You Are Strong Enough To Stop It

No matter what, you’re going to be okay and know that it will not defeat you.
Holly Riordan
April 12, 2017
“Anxiety is not shyness. Shyness is choosing to be silent because it feels uncomfortable to state what’s on your mind. Anxiety is wanting to express your thoughts but being forced to always second guess whether you should because of a traumatizing fear of being embarrassed or ignored.”
— Adam Benedict Tan, The Truth About Modern Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, shyness, Shy
“Anxiety is the voice in your head that tells you that you’re acting like an asshole even though you really aren’t and that everyone else thinks you’re an asshole even though they probably don’t.”
— Adam Benedict Tan, The Truth About Modern Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, asshole, Negativity
“Anxiety is being disconnected from the present moment, other people, or yourself.”
— Brianna Wiest, 24 Things You Need To Do To Heal Your Life From Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Disconnected, Anxious
“I’m often scared to speak out. What if I’m judged the way I was before? Will people view me differently?”
— Carla Robinson, 5 Things You Don’t Realize You’re Struggling With Because You Have Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Fear, Quiet
“Simple, every-day tasks, can be so much harder to perform than you think.”
— Carla Robinson, 5 Things You Don’t Realize You’re Struggling With Because You Have Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Tasks, chores
“People will judge you. Even the sincerest and most meaningful people will judge you at different times – even if they’re incredibly supportive and try their hardest. It’s a harsh fact but people judge what they don’t understand.”
— Carla Robinson, 5 Things You Don’t Realize You’re Struggling With Because You Have Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Judgement, Opinions
“Anxiety is drowning. It can look and feel different in everyone, but there’s one shared commonality. It sucks.”
— Kris Miller, No, I’m Not Faking My Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Drowning, Anxious
“Anxiety feels like walking around while wearing a weighted vest. All senses are heightened, but not in some cool Superhero way. Just chaotic. Nervous. Hearts palpitate and palms profusely sweat. Minds race and replay worst case scenarios on a nauseating loop.”
— Kris Miller, No, I’m Not Faking My Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Nervous, worried
“Anxiety is waking up with a pit in your stomach for no understandable reason. Anxiety is hiding and burying parts of yourself for fear someone, someone like you, won’t get it.”
— Kris Miller, No, I’m Not Faking My Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Fear, Sick
“For as long as I can remember, I have always felt anxious in social settings. Whether that be in class or at parties, or even in just groups of more than three people, I just always feel uncomfortable, paranoid, and painfully awkward.”
— Krystal Naval, Read This If You Struggle With Social Anxiety(And Feel Terribly Alone)
Tagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Paranoid, awkward
“Social settings are so overwhelmingly nerve wrecking that I used to make every excuse to stay away from events (while simultaneously talking myself through anxiety attacks about being disliked when I wasn’t invited to an event).”
— Krystal Naval, Read This If You Struggle With Social Anxiety(And Feel Terribly Alone)
Tagged: Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Nervous, Panic Attacks
“And I think more often than not, people took my shyness as me thinking that I was too good to be part of the group. And maybe this is just a part of the paranoia aspect of having anxiety, but either way, these reactions made me want to crawl even deeper into my shell and never come out.”
— Krystal Naval, Read This If You Struggle With Social Anxiety(And Feel Terribly Alone)
Tagged: Anxiety, Snobby, Shy, Paranoia
“Whether anxiety is a frequent or seldom visitor, it has the power to leave you exhausted, scared, and paralyzed.”
— Kate Dolan, Anxiety Is The Dinner Guest No One Invited
Tagged: Anxiety, Exhausted, Fear, paralyzed
“You feel like your head it going to explode and your heart is going to burst out of your chest, so you abruptly get up from a table, embarrassed and scared, and seek shelter in the bathroom.”
— Kate Dolan, Anxiety Is The Dinner Guest No One Invited
Tagged: Anxiety, Escape, Hiding
“You are not wrong for feeling anxious or having a panic attack. You are not crazy for having racing thoughts or feeling like your heart is going to explode. It happens to a lot of people.”
— Kate Dolan, Anxiety Is The Dinner Guest No One Invited
Tagged: Anxiety, Panic Atack, Anxious
“People underestimate what anxiety really is. You want to call those who overthink everything, or make up scenarios in their head crazy, but you don’t understand: those with anxiety can’t control it.”
— Hayley Greenwood, What It Feels Like To Have Anxiety, Because It Isn’t Us ‘Being Crazy’
Tagged: Anxiety, crazy, Overthinking
“No matter how many times you tell yourself to calm down, tell yourself everything’s fine – you still can’t help but worry about the ‘what if.”
— Hayley Greenwood, What It Feels Like To Have Anxiety, Because It Isn’t Us ‘Being Crazy’
Tagged: Anxiety, what ifs, Calm Down
“Having no control over your own mind, your thoughts, your worries is scary. It’s one of the worst feelings in the world, especially when everything could be perfectly fine, but your mind tricks you into believing everything’s so wrong.”
— Hayley Greenwood, What It Feels Like To Have Anxiety, Because It Isn’t Us ‘Being Crazy’
Tagged: Anxiety, Control, Fear
“It’s isn’t exciting. It isn’t as poetic, or romantic as it seems to be on television and books. It doesn’t just ‘go away’ when love or some miracle worker comes along. It stays. It lingers.”
— Snigdha Chopra, Our Anxiety Is Real But It Doesn’t Make Us Weak
Tagged: Anxiety, Poetic, Romantic
“They will never know what it feels like to second guess every word you say, to be extra cautious and always mentally prepared for something to go wrong. They won’t know how we’re always expecting the worst — from ourselves, and others.”
— Snigdha Chopra, Our Anxiety Is Real But It Doesn’t Make Us Weak
Tagged: Anxiety, Second Guessing, Overthinking