Rebecca Fishbein > Quotes

“Anxiety takes the gray of depression, turns it red, and twists the edges, speeding up your heart rate and making your hands shake. Anxiety doesn’t just make you sad, it makes you scared, without permitting you to pinpoint a cause or possible solution. Anxiety warps your brain, inserting dark corridors into your future and packing them with threats. When you are anxious, you are always unsettled, no matter how much reading of online forums or deep breathing or crying into the phone you do. If you’re not sure what specifically is spiking your adrenaline, then it could be anything, which means danger lurks from all possible angles.”
― Rebecca Fishbein, Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays

“The thing about losing your mind is that it happens when you’re not paying attention. Depression is like a bedbug infestation—you keep waking up with bite-sized welts of self-doubt and sadness that at first you rationalize away, tricking yourself into believing you’re not sleeping enough or are undercaffeinated or just have a teeny case of the blues. Then one day you can’t get out of bed. That lasts for a week. Now you’ve got a problem. *”
― Rebecca Fishbein, Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays

“So we seek solace in friendships — long-term friends, friends born out of convenience, friends we bonded with last week on the bathroom line and will probably forget about in three days. And we seek solace in ourselves, because no matter how many group dinners you plan and brunches you eat and parties you attend, it is still possible that everyone around you will disappear.”
― Rebecca Fishbein, Good Things Happen to People You Hate: Essays – Dark Comedy About Millennial Anxiety, Alcohol, and Resilience