Joshua Fletcher > Quotes

“Anxiety and worrying can cause heart palpitations. Worrying about the palpitations causes anxiety. With increased anxiety come more frequent palpitations, which are perceived as being 'worse', or more intense due to the extreme focus that's placed on them. You can summarise it as a two-way process. Anxiety causes palpitations. Palpitations cause anxiety.”
― Joshua Fletcher, Anxiety: Panicking about Panic: A Powerful, Self-Help Guide for Those Suffering From an Anxiety or Panic Disorder

“There are some things that exist beyond the curriculum that lie in the beating hearts of the caring people that run a school.”
― Joshua Fletcher, And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

“Therapy does not always culminate in dramatic revelations and epiphanies that solve your problems and free you from your demons. Real therapy can be messy and confrontational, and uncomfortable, and it often feels like it’s going nowhere.”
― Joshua Fletcher, And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

“I will highlight this again because of its importance, an overstimulated nervous system causes the body to release disproportionate amounts of adrenaline.”
― Joshua Fletcher, Anxiety: Practical About Panic: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Overcoming Anxiety Disorder