Quotes About Coping

Sometimes macho language is to mask things people are not ready to deal with.

Fear is a normal human response. It certainly is for me.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

When things don't go right, people are always trying to protect themselves.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

Running has been almost my savior.

I can't watch most movies because they scare me too much.

I think we make fun of the things that scare us the most.

I've got to deal with some stuff in my mind that's pretty scary.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write.

I got this advice that if you know a panic attack is happening, just sit back and go, 'Okay, this is happening to me, but it'll be over. You'll be fine. You'll live.'

Feeling alone makes negative feelings worse. When you feel alone, frustration quickly can become anger, fear quickly can become panic.

I had little breakdowns and depression that would last for three days. I also started suffering from panic attacks. I used to get them when I was really young, but they came back. I'd be out having a drink, and then I wouldn't be able to breathe, would freak out, and I'd feel like my heart was going to stop.