Book: Anxious people. Page 1

.... the cold is such that Roger has the money on the card frozen! Roux joked to defuse the situation, but immediately regretted it because Roger didn't laugh.

Loneliness is like hunger: you don't notice how hungry you are until you start eating.

I thought about my mother: the most beautiful thing about her was that she looked life in the eyes and, despite the fact that this life was thrown at her, she never ceased to be a romantic. It takes a big heart for that.

If you fall for a long time, then you stop seeing the difference between falling and flying.

we retreat, and continue to move forward with even greater speed. We build our lives in the place where others crashed against the wall. The closer we ourselves are to this wall, the more we hope to pass through it. The closer it is, the more stubborn we believe that the most incredible solutions will come and miraculously save the situation, while those who are watching us from the outside are waiting for ... a blow. "

An economist receives money only when the bank's clients are doing well, and analysts are always doing well.

- Where did you get the idea that I needed help not to get involved in conflicts? Only weaklings believe in harmony. And as a consequence - walk around and around, mumble something under their noses and feel their moral superiority, while we, normal people, are busy with others.
- What?
- We are winning.
- Is this important? - My dear, if you don't win, you won't achieve anything. There are no random people in the government and the board of directors. The psychologist tried to return to her question:
- And... winners make a lot of money, this is also important, did I understand you correctly? What do you spend them on? I buy a distance that separates me from other people. The psychologist has never heard such an answer.
- What do you mean?
- In expensive restaurants, there is more distance between tables. In business class, there are no seats in the middle row. In exclusive hotels there is a separate entrance for VIPs. In densely populated cities, distance is the most expensive.

- Of course. If you like it better.

A panic attack is a heartache that becomes so severe that it gets a bodily expression. The fear is so acute that the brain ... how would you explain it, the channel lacks bandwidth... to process all information. And the firewall, so to speak, falls.

In the morning, as soon as we open our eyes, life is already ready to rain down on us another avalanche "must be done!" and "don't forget!" We do not have time to think, breathe, as we wake up and immediately try to break through this heap of affairs, because tomorrow a new one will fall on us. Sometimes we stop and look around - at the workplace, during a parent-teacher meeting, or just on the street - and we realize with horror that everyone else knows exactly what they are doing. And only we have to pretend all the time. The rest have enough money for everything, they have everything under control and they have strength for everything. The children of the rest have long learned to swim.

"You know what's the lousiest thing when you're a parent? You are always judged by your worst manifestations. You can do everything right, but there is enough of a single misfire, and you will forever remain the father in the park who looked at the phone when the child flew on the forehead with a swing. We do not take our eyes off them all day long, but it is necessary to distract ourself by a message on the phone, and all the best instantly depreciates. People do not go to a psychotherapist to discuss how in childhood they did not fly a swing on the forehead. Parents are judged by their mistakes."