Quotes About Coping

I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

Adults under threat feel like children.

When the physical threat of coronavirus subsides, as it surely will, we must address the impact to our mental health.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.

I have never been depressed or thrown a plate, which I attribute to the cathartic effects of writing books about people whose lives are more grueling than mine.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

Life moves forward, and you have to deal with whatever it throws at you.

But the thing about me is when life throws me things, I always try to make the best of it.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

I am fine battling lions, tigers, snakes, bulls, even hippopotamuses, but not lizards.

The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs.

Sometimes I think depression should be called the coping illness. So many of us struggle on, not daring or knowing how to ask for help. More of us, terribly, go undiagnosed.

I use humour to hide behind, because I cannot bear to feel my feelings, cannot face the truth.

Sometimes, we find it hard to talk. We get angry and frustrated. We fall into despair. We cry, for no apparent reason. Sometimes we find it difficult to eat, or to sleep. Often, we have to go to bed in the afternoon or all day.

You can keep difficult emotions at bay for a very long time, even for a lifetime but for most of us, at some point in our lives, they will demand to be heard.