Quotes About Coping

I'm saying that being a good mom isn't just about protecting your kids from hurt, it's about showing them how to cope with hurt. It's about teaching them resilience and giving them the tools to handle whatever comes their way.

No relationship is perfect. No matter how much love there is, there's a strong chance you're going to hit rocky times at some point. Life is unpredictable. It can throw out the unexpected and the challenging. Coping with that requires trust and honesty.

Some things are so frightful that a bit of madness is the only sane response. You know that, don't you?

My self-destructive inclination when anxious has been to distance myself from the world. I'm really very good at extracting myself from those around me and hiding out until I think I'm a more bearable person to be around.

Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 Televisions and 100 Radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.

You gain confidence through knowing that I am with you—that you face nothing alone. Anxiety stems from asking the wrong question: "If such and such happens, can I handle it?" The true question is not whether you can cope with whatever happens, but whether you and I together can handle anything that occurs. It is this you-and-I-together factor that gives you confidence to face the day cheerfully.

She said at the national ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association) conference that their AD/HD symptoms often only show up at home after an exhausting effort to "hold it together all day.

Many menopausal women are now being diagnosed with AD/HD for the first time because previously developed coping skills that hid the symptoms are compromised once the estrogen changes exacerbate the symptoms.

No one gets through life scot-free. Shit happens. I's how you deal with it that shapes you, not the actual event itself.

I think Vaughn has Social Anxiety Disorder but he's too much of a control freak to give in to it.

One day you'll wake up and find that the pain's still there but it doesn't hurt quite so much.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn't on its own and that it had to come out.

There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

In every human heart is a place where you put your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.

when it's time to break down and you're lying in bed fighting off the urge to scream, when you're lying there shivering, it's not the memories that keep you going. instead it's the dreams and the cats blaring evil and godlike into the blankness. at times like this, it's best just to sit back and let what is be.

The problem with feelings is not the warmth you feel in good times; it's the coldness you feel in the dark times.

When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Well, cheer up. At least you've got more mobility than a fucking tadpole on dry land.

Hardship is boring as hell. Gotta find laughs if you can't stay drunk.

If we can't control something, there's no value in fearing it, since the fear accomplishes nothing.)

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.