Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Medicines that target the autonomic nervous system, like propranolol or clonidine, can help to decrease hyperarousal and reactivity to stress.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

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• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
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• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
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• Fashion has always been a source of stress for me because I don't know how to dress myself. I'm short-torsoed with big boobs, and I don't really understand what a belt does. But you get on these shows, and people fit the clothing to you, and suddenly you learn, 'Oh, I should be wearing petite jackets.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Important
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• Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
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• Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

  

  Ted Rall
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• Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
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• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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  • Law
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• When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Children
  • Job
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• I gained, I think, 65 pounds when I was pregnant. And I will say to moms out there, 'Don't stress about losing it. It will happen when it happens.'

  

  Vanessa Lachey
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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

  

  Jean Piaget
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• I grew up sort of lower working class. And I just didn't want to have the money struggles that my parents had. You know, I could just - as loving an environment I grew up in - and I grew up in a great home, a very loving home - but, you know, we had that stress. We had that stress in our life.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Life
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• Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.

  

  Joe Taslim
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• It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Road
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• One thing I learned about Gordon Brown is you've got to have the strength to just get in there and take him on. When you first hear him spouting his statistics and boasting about his record, it can be quite intimidating. But over time, shadowing him, I just realised that a lot of it was rubbish; a lot of it was baloney.

  

  George Osborne
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• We had 62,000 tickets in Madrid [for the Champions League final] and 980,000 requests. If we would play for example in Wembley we would have 30,000 more.

  

  Aleksander Ceferin
  • Tickets
  • Requests
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• I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

  

  Mike Quade
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• Medicines that target the autonomic nervous system, like propranolol or clonidine, can help to decrease hyperarousal and reactivity to stress.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Stress
  • Medicines
  • Nervous System