Quotes About Coping

Like the illustrated books of his childhood, he grafted words to images and images to words, insistently reshaping both to his narrative of reassurance. He paired pictures with poetry, sometimes transcribing lines from literature and scripture directly onto his prints to create collages of consolation. This process of layering words and images so gratified his manic imagination and his search for comfort that it would become his principal way of seeing and coping with the world.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Whether I'm stressed out or angry or happy or depressed - however I feel, I say "I love my life," no matter what. That usually keeps me centered.

Everyone has sorrow. Everyone has obligations. Everyone keeps going. You lean on the people who love you. You do the best you can, and you keep going.

I chop a lot of onions because I love cooking, and the times where I've never cried chopping onions is when I'm not thinking about it, when I'm talking to someone or I'm listening to music.

You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health ins't for everyone.

You still go to therapy?" "Nah. I gave up years ago." "Mental health isn't for everyone.

Young people with terminal illnesses develop a whimsical, slightly sarcastic sense of humor about it to put everyone else at ease and to serve as shining examples of grace in the face of colossally fucked-up events.

You didn't invent grief. My shrink once told me that." "Really? Your shrink told you about me?

Grief can be catered just like anything else.

Life is a shit sandwich. But if you've got enough bread, you don't taste the shit.

IF OLD MEMORIES STILL UPSET YOU, WRITE THEM DOWN CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY

Whenever you are cut off at the knees by one of life's many catastrophes, whenever a dream collapses, or someone close to you is hurt in some fundamental way—especially a child or another loved one—then you can easily find yourself thinking, "Perhaps it would be better if the whole mess was just brought to a halt.

The human race has been dealing with loss and death forever. We are the descendants of those who could manage it.

To discuss an event, particularly something emotional, like a death or serious illness, is to slowly choose what to leave behind.

You can't long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering.

Sabes esas chicas que se cortan los brazos con una cuchilla de afeitar, llenándose de heridas y más heridas? Lo hacen para liberar el dolor. Están tan llenas de él que únicamente así superan esa ansiedad.

These narrative moves reduce dissonance and help maintain a sense of control and personal unity.

Salzman didn't believe that telling your troubles helped make them better, which was why he had never undertaken psychotherapy.

Technically, it is correct that extinction can't be used to help people cope with problems that are not based on learning because what it does is induce new learning that competes with the original learning. But

I mostly needed the liquor to forget those days when the job was a calling rather than a burden

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?    'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.