Claire Weekes > Quotes

“principle of treatment can be summarized as: Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.”
― Claire Weekes, Pass Through Panic: Freeing Yourself from Anxiety And Fear

“reorient himself. It is an emotional habit, brought on by the”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“The great majority of my nervously ill patients have been made ill and kept ill because of the way they feel; because of fear of what they think may happen next.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“In other words, long, anxious brooding on any difficult life situation may gradually bring sensitization.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“When desperately concerned with our own affairs, it is not easy for any one of us to be interested in a neighbor's new stereo.”
― Claire Weekes, Peace from Nervous Suffering

“Putting up with” means withdrawing from panic in panic; adding panic to panic, hoping that panic will go quickly and not come back; it means avoiding people and places that bring on panic so that one’s horizon becomes narrower and narrower until it is finally bounded by the front gate; it means always keeping the way open for quick retreat; it means expecting retreat. It means continued illness.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“Present sensitization remains to be cured, whatever the original cause.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“Setback is like Grandma's muffins.”
― Claire Weekes, Peace from Nervous Suffering

“Sensitization alone is not enough, because without fear a body will quickly repair its sensitized state.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“When a person is constantly sensitized and afraid of the state he is in, we say he is nervously ill.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“Facing Accepting Floating Letting time pass”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“Thoughts that are keeping you ill can be changed. In other words, your approach to your illness can be changed.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now

“You who are suffering and read this, turn your attention to the way you think, not to your feelings. Come to terms with your attitude, and your feelings will look after themselves.”
― Claire Weekes, Peace from Nervous Suffering

“Wait on no mood.”
― Claire Weekes, Peace from Nervous Suffering

“At night he falls into bed exhausted, to sleep the fretful sleep of nervous agitation, the heavy sleep of nervous exhaustion, the drugged sleep of the barbiturate swallower, or, worse still, to find no sleep in spite of heavy sedation.”
― Claire Weekes, Hope and Help for Your Nerves: End Anxiety Now