- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.
- Disorders
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to put a human face on anxiety disorders. I thought people who suffer from anxiety might recognize themselves and gain some comfort from my story and for those who don't suffer from anxiety disorders gain some understanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed them everywhere, just in case I ever feel the need to throw up. I haven't vomited since 1977, but I think about it all the time. I recognize that it's irrational, but I'd rather jump out of a window than vomit.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus, and ever since then, I have an aversion to cheese.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a vast encyclopedia of fears and phobias, and pretty much any object, experience, situation you can think of, there is someone who has a phobia of it.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldn't want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. It's hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.
- Brain Cells
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.
- Might
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- Nov 07, 2020
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
- Neither
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- Nov 07, 2020
As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020