A wise man once said, 'Anxiety does not prevent tomorrow's pain, but it steals today's joy.' Another noted that anxiety is among the deadliest diseases affecting humanity. In this article, we present a collection of inspiring short stories about overcoming anxiety and depression.
Inspiring Short Stories of Overcoming Depression and Anxiety
1- What Does Anxiety Do?
The doctor told her that the duration of the treatment would last about six months.
The girl asked him, "Do you mean that I won't be able to get married before six months have passed?"
He replied, "Unfortunately, you will not be able to get married before six months."
This conversation took place in the evening, and the next morning, her temperature returned to normal, the pain had disappeared from her joints, and the depression and panic disappeared from her face. The doctor could not find an explanation for this change, so he put her under observation for a few days and then told her to leave. However, he didn’t know the reason for the recovery of the girl.
After a month, the girl returned to the hospital in the same previous condition (high temperature, joint pain, and excessive anxiety). When the doctor examined the matter, it became clear that her father wanted her to marry a certain person because he would help him at work. The girl loved her father and wanted to do what he wanted, even though she didn’t want to marry this man. For this reason, she suffered from these diseases.
When she knew from the doctor that she wouldn’t be able to get married for six months, she regained her health. And when the date of marriage approached, she got sick again.
The doctor said to her father, "There are no medicines to treat your daughter, and if you force her into this marriage, she may become ill for the rest of her life. The only treatment is to give her the freedom of choice, and this is the best medicine for her."
When her father told her that she wouldn’t be forced into this marriage, she regained her health, and her recovery was rapid and steady.
This story illustrates the great impact of psychological pain on human health, as thousands of people fall prey to diseases because of excessive anxiety.
{stories of overcoming anxiety}
2- The Source of Happiness
John
D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller amassed a great fortune and established the world's largest company at the time (Standard Oil), but at the age of 53, he succumbed to the anxiety that destroyed his health. At this age, he developed a blood disease that led to his hair falling out.
Rockefeller was spending many hours in bed in preparation for death, and his health was extremely fragile, so doctors advised him to live on milk only. At that time, Rockefeller was the richest man in the world, and yet he lived on food not enough for a small child. His income was one million dollars a week, and yet he was spending only two dollars a week on his food.
Rockefeller turned into a skeleton covered with sallow skin. So, what made him reach this situation?
It was anxiety, tension, and constant pressure. This man worshipped money, and there was nothing that excited him and brought joy to his heart more than hearing about the success of a deal he made.
Once, he shipped tons of grain worth $40,000 through the Great Lakes without insuring the shipment, while insurance would have cost him no more than $150. On the night that the ship set sail, a strong storm blew, and Rockefeller was very worried about the cargo.
The next morning, Rockefeller asked his partner to hurry up and insure the cargo. So his partner rushed to the insurance company and paid $150. When he returned to him with the reassuring news, he found Rockefeller in very bad condition because Rockefeller had received a telegram informing him that the cargo had arrived at its destination safely.
Rockefeller felt depressed and sad because he had spent $150 for nothing, and he fell ill that day. When the doctor came and found him in danger because of his excessive anxiety, he gave him two options: quit work or die. So Rockefeller chose to quit work.
Rockefeller stopped thinking about collecting money for the first time because he realized that the money he collected did not bring him happiness. He turned from a stingy person into a generous one and began donating millions of his money to charity. Peace and safety returned to him, and he felt great happiness that he had never felt before.
For the first time, anxiety had no power over him. One day, his company was sentenced to pay a huge fine. The lawyer was afraid to tell him the news, fearing he would fall dead from the shock. He tried to make it as easy for him as he could. Finally, the lawyer told him the verdict, and he was very scared for him.
When Rockefeller heard the news, he smiled and said to the lawyer, "Don’t worry about me. Money has no power over me, and there is nothing in this world that can take away my inner peace. Good night, my friend."
These words were spoken by the man who got sick one day because he lost $150. Rockefeller managed to overcome anxiety, and this made him live a life full of inner peace. He was expected to die at the age of 53, but he lived to the age of 98.
The good that Rockefeller had done and the many millions he had donated cured him of every disease.
3- A Fugitive Without a Pursuer
During the American Civil War, a southern resident was overwhelmed with terror as he heard the booming cannon shots and saw the fierce flames consuming the land. Fear, anxiety, and intense turmoil gripped his heart until he lost his sanity.He fled the village in the dark of night, heading for the distant mountains, where he entered a deep cave and hid in a narrow crevice, escaping the horrors of war.
From that moment on, he lived in constant fear and distress, severing all ties with humanity and the light of day. He existed like a wild animal, navigating the darkness of night, searching for water and food, and returning to his cave before dawn, unseen by anyone and seeing no one.
After a few months, his clothes had torn apart, his nails had grown long, and thick hair covered his naked body. His back became hunched, and he walked with a stoop.
Years passed without him encountering a single human being. His emotions froze, his feelings dried up, and he no longer remembered anything about human life. His estrangement from the world dragged on, and he forgot the words of his language. The words on his lips turned into incoherent murmurs that sometimes became broken cries.
Decades passed before a scouting expedition discovered him. They carried him, terrified and roaring like a wounded lion, to a mental institution, where he spent several months before beginning to grasp some of the changes in time and regaining a fragment of his lost humanity.
This is the story of a man who chose to flee from the known present into the embrace of an uncertain future. He preferred dying in darkness to living in the light and chose to escape into the night rather than face the day. As a result of this choice, he lost his human characteristics and became like an animal.
My dear,
God created us and endowed us with abilities and talents that enable us to wrestle with the hardships of life and confront difficult circumstances. These confrontations make us stronger, wiser, and more resilient, while fleeing brings only weakness, darkness, and emptiness. The fear and anxiety that overwhelmed this man made him flee from the world, spending the rest of his life as a fugitive in the mountains, wandering aimlessly between the hills with no one pursuing him.
Many people waste their lives running from things that are not chasing them!
{anxiety success stories}
4- The Panicked Killer: Short Story About Anxiety
After the mourning period, while walking down the street, the young man encountered a police officer who offered his condolences for the loss of his uncle. Moments later, the officer pointed to a red spot on the young man's shirt. The young man became extremely flustered, filled with anxiety and panic.
The officer, using his skills, suspected that the young man, being the only heir, might be the killer, so he started an investigation. Eventually, the young man confessed, revealing all the details of the murder. The officer asked him to sign a statement, and as the young man reached into his shirt pocket to take out a pen, he found a red ink pen, the source of the stain. However, his overwhelming anxiety and fear had already led him to confess.
5- Don’t Despair
Booth Tarkington
When Booth Tarkington became blind, he didn't feel anxiety and said, "If I had lost all my five senses, I would continue to live inside my mind, because we see with our mind and live by it."
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
John Milton
{anxiety disorder stories}
6- The Only Solution Story
The man kept living in anxiety and depression. He found no taste for sleep or food, and he was thinking sadly about how to pay this great debt. After a long time, he decided to get rid of the anxiety and open the envelope. When he opened it, he was very surprised because he found only a message saying, "Thank God for your health," and there was no debt to pay.
The man did not believe his eyes and re-read the message many times. In the end, all the anxiety and depression disappeared from his heart, and he felt reassured and happy. Then he went to thank the doctor, who was a man of faith. When the doctor became aware of the patient's poverty, he decided not to take any money from him.
Calm down and go to bed, what you're worried about is worthless.
7- An Anxiety Success Story
Martin and Osa Johnson
The famous traveler Osa Johnson married Martin Johnson at the age of sixteen, and the couple spent a quarter of a century traveling from one country to another. During this period, they presented to the cinema images of primitive life that were on the verge of extinction in Asia and Africa.
When they returned to America, they intended to go around and give a series of lectures and show their famous films. They boarded a plane from Denver heading to the coast. But unfortunately, the plane hit the top of a mountain and crashed, and Martin died instantly.
The doctors estimated that Osa Johnson would never leave her bed after that day, but they didn't know her. Three months later, she was sitting in a wheelchair giving lectures to a large group of listeners. In the following period, she gave more than a hundred lectures!
When Dale Carnegie asked her why she did that, she replied, "I did it, so I wouldn't have time for myself to be sad or worried."
{depression and anxiety stories}
8- Fears and Illusions: Anxiety Short Story
The passengers of the train noticed that there was a woman who felt anxious and panicked. Whenever the conductor passed by, she would stop him and ask him many questions. One of the passengers asked the conductor what the woman was worried about.The conductor replied, "She is afraid that the bridges on which the train passes are unsafe. She is afraid that the train will be late, and she is afraid that she will not find the intended ship in its place upon arrival."
A lot of people, if there are no fears, create them for themselves!
9- Unwarranted Anxiety
Dale Carnegie
In his childhood, Dale Carnegie would always panic when there was a storm or thunder in the sky, and he was always anxious. As the years went by, he found that 99% of the fears that caused him anxiety never occurred, and he realized that his excessive anxiety was unjustified.
My dear friend,
Some people suffer from the problem of anxiety, so we can call them anxiety addicts. If there is nothing in their lives to worry about, they look for someone else's problems to worry about. Therefore, they deprive themselves of enjoying inner peace because of the feelings of anxiety that fill their lives.
Man cannot live in anxiety and peace at the same time.
{stories about overcoming anxiety}
10- Anxiety About Nothing
One of the women said to her doctor, "If I went anywhere, I would tell myself after leaving the house:- Maybe I forgot to turn off the power.
- Maybe the house caught on fire.
- Perhaps the children went out with their bicycles to the street and were run over by a car!
Therefore, I feel anxious, and I hurry back to my house to make sure that nothing happened.
Anxiety steals the joy of life.
Anxiety steals the joy of life.
{anxiety disorder recovery stories}
11- What Makes You Tired?
Sadly, the lives of businessmen are shattered because of anxiety!
Is this the price of success?
And what benefits a man if he won the whole world and lost his health?
Dale Carnegie says, "I honestly prefer to be a simple farmer playing my guitar instead of destroying my health at the age of 45 to establish a company."
Dr. Alexis Carrel says, "Businessmen who don't know how to fight anxiety die young."
One of the American doctors says that 70% of patients who visit doctors can treat themselves on their own if they get rid of the anxiety and stress that dominate them.
There is no other way to get rid of anxiety other than to allow peace to enter our hearts.
Here's the end of the stories.
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We have shared a carefully curated collection of short stories about overcoming anxiety, aiming to support individuals in managing symptoms of depression, anxiety, and therapy-related challenges. These inspirational stories highlight real-life experiences of people who faced and conquered social anxiety, demonstrating resilience and the power of change.
We hope these stories motivate you to stop worrying, embrace positive transformations, and actively participate in your community with confidence. Let them inspire you to adopt mindfulness-based techniques for stress reduction and a more fulfilling life.
We hope these stories motivate you to stop worrying, embrace positive transformations, and actively participate in your community with confidence. Let them inspire you to adopt mindfulness-based techniques for stress reduction and a more fulfilling life.
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