Quotes About Coping

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.

I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.

Talking about my addiction to alcohol is therapeutic. Most definitely telling everyone about it is as well.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

For me, music is therapeutic, so the songs that came to me the easiest came from the most devastating moments of my life.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I have always been scared of confrontation. My therapist says it stems from my fear of abandonment.

I've seen a therapist at different points in my life for different reasons.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

I've been to therapists my whole life.

I had a mini-breakdown and had to move back in with my parents. But then I got a great therapist and it saved my life.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I did address my anxiety issues through therapy.

Therapy's like going to the gym.

I realized that therapy helps me explain what I'm feeling better.