{"quotes":[{"text":"When face with any problem, do not panic, but pray.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["difficulties","panic","positive-attitude","pray","problem","self","will-power","wise-words"],"id":10823,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I can’t seem to wipe away the blood. I rub my hands against my nightgown, but traces of the red remain, staining the lines of my palms and the crescents beneath my fingernails. I wipe harder, gathering and bunching the soft cotton inside my fists. The fabric has been slit up the center and for a moment I worry that I’ve been cut, that maybe the blood is my own. I try to ask what’s happening, but there’s a mask over my mouth and nose. Suddenly it hits me—I’m in an ambulance.I don’t remember how I got here.","author":"Paula Stokes","tags":["ambulance","beginning","blood","panic"],"id":11886,"author_id":"Paula+Stokes"},{"text":"Oh, my, god, we are in a killing room. This is just like an episode of Dexter! They are going to murder us!” Mia exclaimed as she started to cry.","author":"Andrea Heltsley","tags":["crying","dexter","killing-room","mia","panic"],"id":13688,"author_id":"Andrea+Heltsley"},{"text":"We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["afraid","fail","failing","failure","fall","fallen","falling","fear","fearful","opportunities","opportunity","panic","perspective","possibility","potential","seize","seized"],"id":15548,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Magnesium deficiency can produce symptoms of anxiety or depression, including muscle weakness, fatigue, eye twitches, insomnia, anorexia, apathy, apprehension, poor memory, confusion, anger, nervousness, and rapid pulse.","author":"Carolyn Dean","tags":["anxiety","depression","magnesium","panic"],"id":15915,"author_id":"Carolyn+Dean"},{"text":"To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?","author":"Maggie Nelson","tags":["breathing","excitement","panic","water"],"id":21480,"author_id":"Maggie+Nelson"},{"text":"She was young and scared, and hadn't realized there was time to spare.","author":"David Halberstam","tags":["anxiety","fear","panic","perspective"],"id":27931,"author_id":"David+Halberstam"},{"text":"The sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["anxiety","be-okay","crying","hopeless","hurt","mental-health","okay","panic","panic-attack","panic-attacks","recovery","sad","sadness","self-destruction","self-harm","sky","tears"],"id":29591,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Panic is poison.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["inspiring","panic","poison"],"id":30132,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there.","author":"Julia Gregson","tags":["drowning","east-of-the-sun","feeling","feet","julia-gregson","panic","scared","strange","swimming"],"id":32938,"author_id":"Julia+Gregson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}