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Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public... →
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she... →
During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go... →
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... →
People experiencing their first panic attack often end up in emergency rooms thinking that they're having a heart attack or dying or something... →
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... →
An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.
As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.
I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.
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.
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.
To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.
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