Anxiety Navigator Gifts

A worrying future

"No, I don't want a glass of water, but I'm worried that I might want one."

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

'You say that you'd hate to be up there in a plane? I'd hate to be there without one!'

"I HATE public speaking! Whenever I'm in front of an audience, I freeze like a... Well, you get the picture."

Maybe you have cancer. - 'Why would I have cancer?' - 'Why would you not have cancer?' - 'I don't know.' - 'Maybe I have cancer.' - '' -

'I hear things that go bump in the night.'

"I like worrying about the future. I'm so busy I don't regret the past."

"But what if this is all there is?"

"Right...morning...now what?"

"Brenda's always been a bit of a worrier."

'A few more years in this job and you'll learn how to delegate stress.'

Surfing the daily stress

'It's 930am ma'am - time to meet the Board of Detractors.'

'I've been a nervous rex all day.'

"Why can't I get anything done unless I'm totally stressed out about it?" "Is it possible to be relaxed and still be productive?" "What is wrong with my brain?" "Why don't you work better?"

"The boss is charging. I knew you shouldn't have worn that red tie."

"I'm swamped but I can squeeze you in for a few moments yesterday."

The Map of the Human Heart

'I didn't come in to hear that I'm burning the candle at both ends. I came for more wax.'

'Occasionally the Dr. asks me to get real with people.'

"Ever get the feeling you're being watched?"

I applied for a job with NASA but they turned me down. I think it was because I told them I wanted to be an astronaut because in space, you can't cry because there's no gravity and tears can't flow.

The Wishing Well

Yesterday I had an argument with the janitor of my building, and then last night I dreamed that he was chasing me with a large ball-peen hammer

Free-Floating Anxiety

"Perhaps there is such a thing as being too well-informed."

"Returning to standard time is always difficult. I gain an hour of worrying."

Some of us are calm on the surface but paddling like crazy underneath, and some of us are just the opposite.

'He's never there for me.'

Neurotics in the tropics

"Pencil eraser."

"Hell: The Airport"

"With great power comes great, great stress."

"I had that dream again where you're writing down all my fears and anxieties and working them into a screenplay."