Scott Stossel Quotes

• Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel 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.

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  Fighting, Missing, Alive

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• Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

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  Anxiety, Misery, Easy

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• Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

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  Anxiety

  "Surviving Anxiety". www.theatlantic.com. January/February 2014.

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• There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

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  Giving Up, Differences, Personality

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• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

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  Ducks, People, Peers

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• 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.

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  Home, Fighting, Cells

  "The Prisoner of Stress" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. January 27, 2014.

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• It is an irony of medical history that even as Freud's later work would make him the progenitor of modern psychodynamic psychotherapy, which is generally premised on the idea that mental illness arises from unconscious psychological conflicts, his papers on cocaine make him one of the fathers of biological psychiatry, which is governed by the notion that mental distress is partly caused by a physical or chemical malfunction that can be treated with drugs.

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  Father, Ideas, Drug

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Stressful Situations, People

  "Fear Of Fainting, Flight And Cheese: One Man's 'Age Of Anxiety'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 6, 2014.

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