Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil GibranTags: life future anxiety controlling
I always claimed I became the Batman to fight crime. That was a lie. I did it to overcome the fear.
Jim StarlinTags: fear courage anxiety batman
It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: worry rock concern anxiety richelle worrying richelle-goodrich anxiousness worrying-over-nothing worrying-about-nothing fret
I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.
Judith WarnerTags: motherhood anxiety judith-warner
Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of work, or too much work, or a lack of adequate child care. It's the sense that life should have led up to more than it has. A sense that after all the hard work, for all our achievements as individuals and as a "postfeminist" generation, life should be better than this.
Judith WarnerTags: motherhood anxiety judith-warner
Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds noble on the surface but in fact it's doing no one-- not ourselves, or our children -- any good. Because when we lose ourselves in our mommy selves, we experience this loss as depression. When we disempower ourselves in our mommy selves, we experience this weakness as anxiety. When we desexualize ourselves in our mommy selves, it leads us to feel dead in our skin. All this places an undue burden upon our children. By making them the be-all-and-end-all of our lives, by breaking down the boundaries between ourselves and them so thoroughly, by giving them so much power within the family when they're very small, we risk overwhelming them psychologically and ill-preparing them, socially, for the world of other children and, eventually, other adults. Nursery school and kindergarten teachers are already complaining that our children are so indulged, made so royal at home, that they come to school lacking compassion for others and with real problems functioning socially.
Judith WarnerTags: motherhood anxiety judith-warner
For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be -- shouldn't be -- done. Too many are eaten up by resentment toward their husbands, who are not subject to the same heartless pressures. Too many are becoming anxious and depressed because they are overwhelmed and disappointed. Too many are letting their lives be poisoned by guilt because their expectations can't be met, and because there is an enormous cognitive dissonance between what they know to be right for themselves and what they're told is right for their children. Too many feel out of control.
Judith WarnerTags: guilt control motherhood anxiety
The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
Alain de BottonTags: reality possibilities anxiety sundays
I’ve gotta stop thinking I know what other people think, cause most of ‘what other people think’ is something I’m making up. So I should just let them have their experience, I’ll have my experience and not pretend to know, and just get past that. [I think that] is a major obstacle: manifesting that insecurity, that fear. Believing the audience in your head as opposed to what’s really going on in the world—not responding to the one I’m making up, which is always going to judge me harder than the real one.
Marc MaronTags: anxiety insecurity marc-maron automatic-thoughts intrusive-thoughts punchline-magazine
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
John EldredgeTags: drama depression anxiety
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