Overcoming Anxiety Quotes

“Fear is a reaction to immediate danger – your car going into a skid, for example, or a child running into the road – whereas anxiety involves a response to something farther away in the future: something that’s going to happen later today, tomorrow, next week and so on. It could be, for example, an interview, a plane flight or speaking up at a meeting. You could be feeling anxious but you don’t know what exactly you’re anxious about.”
― Gill Hasson, Overcoming Anxiety: Reassuring Ways to Break Free from Stress and Worry and Lead a Calmer Life

“Negative thoughts fixate on negative outcomes. They are self-perpetuating: each thought creates another negative thought until your mind is filled with negativity. There’s certainly no room for more positive, helpful ways of thinking.”
― Gill Hasson, Overcoming Anxiety: Reassuring Ways to Break Free from Stress and Worry and Lead a Calmer Life