Quotes About Coping

In the month of December I couldn't get out of bed. I kept waking up at 6 P.M. and it was Christmas or New Year's and I had to start drinking & eating.

Not knowing… that could be as hard to handle as despair.

Sometimes you need to fix a smile on your face and just muscle through. That's another way to deal with the sinking sensation that you cannot trust another person the planet. That is another kind of remedy.

Sooner or later everyone encounters stressful life experiences, but HSPs react more to such stimulation. If you see this reaction as part of some basic flaw, you intensify the stress already present in any life crisis.

repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.

The truth that many people do not understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. —Thomas Merton

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Why, then, even when I advanced, was I so quick to retreat? Why did I always have ready a gracious smile, a happy laugh, when things went badly? Why, sooner or later, did I always find plausible excuses for those who made me suffer?

Solo se dejaba distraer, si es que se puede decir así, por otro motivo de sufrimiento. Un dolor nuevo obraba en ella como una especie de antídoto.

It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.

Allora perché non ti rassegni? Colpa della testa che non sa calmarsi, cerca di continuo un modo per funzionare.

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En los momentos de crisis, con mucha frecuencia las mujeres tratamos de calmarnos escribiendo.

After a few days, the physical symptoms passed. Inside my soul, I still felt like I had fallen off the end of the conveyor belt, but I was able to ear, read, swim, and hold my face together such that I wasn't constantly staring at people with the stricken eyes of death.

At the T stop, I stared fixedly ahead, as tears streamed down my face, and my nasal passages shut down. Was this the "work" you had to do? Was I getting better?

Of course, you couldn't have a party without alcohol; I understood this now. I understood the reason. The reason was that people were intolerable.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields — even to sadness.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Preferring to cry in a motorcycle to a bicycle does not ameliorate a person's pain because it just does elevate his/her suffering from lower level to upper strata to match up to the materialistic gain.

Adrenaline management," as I perceive it, is important for all of us, regardless of our basic personality type.

is a way of being that gives you the resources to deal with the ups and downs of life

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES