What is Anxiety

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Meg White from the White Stripes (as seen in my avatar) has an anxiety disorder, as does Chan Marshall from the band Catpower. Does anyone know any other famous ppl w anxiety disorders?
Posted on 01/17/09, 09:01 am
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Reply #1 - 01/17/09  9:55am
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Reply #2 - 01/17/09  10:01am
" Theres alot of stars i have read about with Anxiety issue's actually i just read on male journal secrets that John Travolta is dealing with it as we speak for shame the hard time hes going threw, this is what makes them stars they hide alot on stage ect: "
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Reply #3 - 01/17/09  10:01pm
" Heather Locklear
Britney Spears
John Mayer (Keeps Xanax with him at all times)
Barbara Streisand "
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Reply #4 - 01/17/09  11:36pm
" Terry Bradshaw
Kim Bassinger
Ted Turner
Howie Mandel has ocd with hypochrondia "
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Reply #5 - 01/17/09  11:39pm
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Reply #6 - 01/18/09  12:13am
" Eric Clapton
Nicolas Cage "
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Reply #7 - 01/18/09  11:28am
" Sometimes I think people forget that celebrities are people too. I can't name any other celebrities than the ones already named here, but they have a million eyes on them all the time! I'm sure they have anxiety! If we can have it, so can they. Anxiety doesn't discriminate. "
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Reply #8 - 01/18/09  6:40pm
" john mayer? he seems so calm and collected.
karo parisyan. he is an mma fighter. he got knocked out and developed anxiety about fighting after that. "
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Reply #9 - 01/18/09  6:46pm
" Famous Anxiety Sufferers:

Isaac Asimov (author)
Kim Basinger (actress)
Roseanne Barr (comedian)
David Bowie (singer)Charlotte Bronte (author)
Robert Burns (poet)
Barbara Bush (former First Lady - U.S.)
John Candy (comedian)
Earl Campbell (football star)
Naomi Campbell (model)
Dean Cain (actor)
Deanna Carter (singer)
Ray Charles (musician)
Eric Clapton (musician)
Dick Clark (television personality)
Cher (singer, actress)
Michael Crichton (writer)
Sheryl Crow (musician)
Johnny Depp (actor)
Tony Dow (actor director)
Jim Eisenreich (baseball)
Michael English (singer)
Edie Falco (actress)
Sally Field (actress)
Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist)
Aretha Franklin (singer)
James Garner (actor)
Barbara Gordon (filmmaker)
Shecky Greene (comedian)
Pete Harnisch (baseball star)
Anthony Hopkins (actor)
Olivia Hussey (actress)
Beverly Johnson (supermodel)
Naomi Judd (singer)
Al Kasha (songwriter)
Leila Kenzle (actress)
Nicole Kidman (actress)
Courtney Love (singer - actress)
John Madden (announcer)
Howie Mandel (comic)
Robert McFarlane (former National Security Advisor - U.S.)
John Cougar Mellancamp (musician, actor)
John Stuart Mill (philosopher)
Alanis Morisette (singer)
Edvard Munch (artist)
Sir Isaac Newton (scientist)
Lani O'Grady (actress)
Sir Laurence Olivier (actor)
Donny Osmond (actor)
Marie Osmand (entertainer)
Robin Quivers (radio host)
Bonnie Raitt (musician)
Burt Reynolds (actor)
Joan Rivers (actress)
Winona Ryder (actress)
Charles Schultz (cartoonist)
Willard Scott (weatherman)
Sam Shepard (playwright)
Sissy Spacek (actress)
Carly Simon (singer)
Tom Snyder (host)
John Steinbeck (author)
Howard Stern (king of media)
Barbra Streisand (singer)
Dave Stewart of the (singer – Eurythmics)
Nikola Tesla (inventor)Susan Powter (tv host)
Anne Tyler (author)
Ricky Williams (atlete)
Ann Wilson (singer)
Oprah Winfrey (host)
W.B. Yeats (poet)

Famous OCD Sufferers:

Dan Ackroyd (actor)
Jessica Alba (actress / model))
Woody Allen (actor / director)
Natalie Appleton (pop singer)
Alec Baldwin (actor)
Roseanne Barr (actress)
David Beckham (athlete)
Ludwig Van Beethoven (composer)
Charles Darwin (biologist / writer)
Ian Puleston-Davies (actor)
Cameron Diaz (actress)
Leonardo Dicaprio (actor)
Penélope Cruz (actress)
Fred Durst (musician)
Albert Einstein (physicist)
Jim Eisenreich (athlete)
Harrison Ford (actor)
Paul Gascoigne (athlete)
Kathie Lee Gifford (TV host)
Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress)
Jane Horrocks (actress / musician)
Howard Hughes (producer / industrialist)
Dr. Samuel Johnson (author)
Stanley Kubrick (director)
Howie Mandel (actor / comedian)
Rose McGowan (actress)
John Melendez (comedian)
Michelangelo (artist / engineer)
Joey Ramone (vocalist / songwriter)
Martin Scorsese (director / producer)
Charlie Sheen (actor)
Mark Summers (TV host)
Billy Bob Thornton (actor)
Justin Timberlake (singer / performer)
Donald Trump (business magnate)
Warren Zevon (musician "
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Reply #10 - 01/18/09  7:38pm
" Wow, iloverabbits, I saved that list for inspiration.

:)Dee "

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