Quotes About Coping

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.

Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it's a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

I used food as a coping mechanism for many, many years, and it was my best friend for a long time.

Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.

When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show

When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't.

That's the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Being vulnerable has always been my way of dealing with my grief, from the beginning. Even before I knew I was that way, I cried it out all the time. I expressed my feelings.

when you start to feel a little sad, anxious, or irritable it's not the mood that does the damage but how you react to it. • the effort of trying to free yourself from a bad mood or bout of unhappiness – of working out why you're unhappy and what you can do about it – often makes things worse. It's like being trapped in quicksand – the more you struggle to be free, the deeper you sink.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Navidson's troubles might not have created the house, but they did ultimately shape the way he faced it.

I stopped going out. Nothing could distract me. I felt like I was losing control. Something terrible was going to happen. Eventually something terrible did happen.

Whenever I felt particularly bad I'd instantly cling to a favorite daydream, one I was willing to revisit constantly, a pretty vivid one too . . .