Anxious Avoiders Pillows

'I want to see a doctor who understands that I don't want to see him.'

"It seems my fear of death has been replaced by my fear of politics."

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

"You dropped yer wallet."

"But what if this is all there is?"

Free-Floating Anxiety

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

Nervous Student

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

"Pencil eraser."

"Hell: The Airport"

The stock market sky is falling.

Nervous at a party.

'I checked my symptoms on the internet and I think I might be dead!'

"You call that worrying?"

"So, Ms. Medusa. Let's talk about this fear of snakes you mentioned. Do you notice that it causes anxiety?"

'I can remember when paranoia was unusual.'

Chatty, garlic-coffee breath, apathetic, contagious

"My main worry is my anxiety."

"I feel we're almost down to bedrock, Mr. Bonwell."

"Then there was the dream where I woke up in a pool of melted butter."

"Just this once, can we not talk about news or politics or money or family or relationships or children or friends or sex or religion or sports or culture or real estate or the past or the future?"

'When I call for the time and temperature, they say 'Who wants to know?''

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

"I need to update my cloak of invincibility."

'Well, you're not a hypochondriac, you only THINK you're a hypochondriac!'

'Global warming, international terrorism, melting polar ice caps, receding hairline... It's all very worrying.'

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

From the tournament of neuroses parade

If I'm a hypochondriac, what does that make YOU?

"I sleep poorly anyway, so you might as well put me in high-risk investments."

"We were wondering if now would be a good time to panic."

"Patient. . . seems. . . reluctant. . . to get his. . . prostate. . . checked. . ."

What's that? - 'I've written a list of my anxieties.' - 'To help you tackle them 'head on'?' - 'Err... not exactly.' - 'To help put things in perspective?' - 'I just like writing lists, really.' -

'He has a doctorate in worrying.'