Quotes About Coping

At the end of the day everybody is doing what they can to get by

But she's too afraid. Afraid that if she begins, she'll start to cry and never stop, that she'll be swallowed by her sadness, her fear, how overwhelmed she is, how certain she is that everything she has is slipping away.

Funny how that works. Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water...

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

It's hard to explain how much that feeling of the bottom potentially falling out at any moment takes its toll. It makes you anxious, of course, and constant anxiety is impossible for the body to handle. So you develop a coping mechanism, and for us that meant shutting down.

We learn, under occupation, that there's more rat in us than we knew.

The truth about resilience is that it's a learned behavior. If you gravitate toward hopelessness, it's not because you're hopeless, but because your brain has done it so many times before. If your mind naturally goes to despair, it's not because your situation is dire, but because you have developed strong neural pathways for despair.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

You know things aren't right in your life when you look forward to going back to war," he said.

Everyone has a perception if you are divorced. I got so busy with work that I didn't even have the time to realize what was happening in my personal life. I had my own way of dealing with it.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making people laugh.

If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.

I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.

I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.

In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.

I was quiet a lot when I was picked on as a kid because I didn't have anything to say back.