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 gener…

- Scott Stossel

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 n…

- Scott Stossel

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 …

- Scott Stossel

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 …

- Scott Stossel

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.

- Scott Stossel

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

- Scott Stossel

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 …

- Scott Stossel

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.

- Scott Stossel