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21 Quotes That Will Help People Understand Your Anxiety

It's an unanswered text that makes you cringe inside. 
Kirsten Corley
January 12, 2017
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, The Essential Kierkegaard
Tagged: Freedom, Anxiety, Too Many Possibilities
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Tagged: worry, Anxiety
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
Tagged: Anxiety, Control, Future
“We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.”
— Oswald Chambers, The Love of God: An Intimate Look at the Father-Heart of God (OSWALD CHAMBERS LIBRARY)
Tagged: Anxiety, worry, wise, wicked
“Whatever you do, never let yourself believe that your anxiety makes you unlovable.”
— Holly Riordan, Date Someone Who Can Ease Your Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Dating, Dating & Anxiety
“My mind turned by anxiety, or other cause, from its scrutiny of blank paper, is like a lost child–wandering the house, sitting on the bottom step to cry.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
Tagged: Anxiety, what anxiety feels like, anxiety in literature, Mind, Examples of Similes
“An anxiety disorder is when those run-of-the-mill butterflies become a chronic daily experience.”
— Lindsay Holmes, 8 Things Only People With Anxiety Understand
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Anxious
“Anxiety disorder is far more extensive than an ailment of someone who just worries too much. It is reflective of complete panic and it affects every aspect of life for those who suffer from it.”
— Kirsten Corley, What Anxiety Actually Is, Since It's Certainly Not 'Just Worrying'
Tagged: Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety
“Just because someone lives with anxiety, it doesn’t mean that their anxiety defines them.”
— Koty Neelis, 14 Things To Remember When You Love A Person With Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Understanding Anxiety, Anxiety
“The better you can learn to tolerate the discomfort of anxiety and recognize it as temporary, the less it will disrupt your life.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety
“Try this: I'm allowed to make mistakes. I'm allowed to feel good sometimes. Anxiety is my bitch. I don't like these feelings, but they won't hurt me.”
— Robert Duff, Hardcore Self Help: F**k Anxiety
Tagged: Mantras, Tell Yourself This
“Depression is when you don’t really care about anything. Anxiety is when you care too much, and over think everything, having both is hell.”
— Soft Grung
Tagged: Anxiety, Depression, Negative Feelings
“It takes so much energy constantly dealing with depression/anxiety/medication/doctors. It's so draining and progress is so hard to make.”
— Jejune Being, via Facebook
Tagged: Mental Illness
“A lot of 'irrational' anxiety comes from subconsciously sensing something, yet not taking it seriously because it isn't logical.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Anxiety, Intuition, Logic, Sensing Things
“Anxiety is the time you spend waiting for an answer as a scenario plays out in your mind of what they could be thinking or are they mad?

Anxiety is an unanswered text that kills you inside”
— Kirsten Corley, What Anxiety Actually Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Mental Health Awareness
“It’s thinking too much, it’s caring too much. Because the root of people with anxiety is caring.”
— Kirsten Corley, What Anxiety Actually Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Mental Health Awareness
“Anxiety is wanting to fix something that isn’t even a problem.”
— Kirsten Corley, What Anxiety Actually Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Mental Health Awareness
“Anxiety is procrastination because you’re paralyzed with fear of failing so you hold it off.”
— Kirsten Corley, What Anxiety Actually Is, Because It’s More Than ‘Just Worrying’
Tagged: Anxiety Disorder, Anxiety, Mental Health Awareness
“You obsess over everything in your head. Most likely, the things you obsess about would never cross someone’s mind who doesn’t have anxiety.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, 11 Things People Don’t Realize You Are Doing Because Of Your Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder
“High functioning anxiety can truly make us into our own worst enemies.”
— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, 11 Things People Don’t Realize You’re Doing Because Of Your High Functioning Anxiety
Tagged: Anxiety, Anxiety Disorder