Quotes About Coping

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

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. —Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2

Minha vida não era tão ruim. Pelo menos era isso o que dizia a mim mesmo o tempo todo, numa tentativa inútil de afastar a enorme solidão que sentia.

My life wasn't so bad. At least that's what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt.

I also have a habit of overeating when I was depressed or frustrated, which was most of the time.

Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable.

O ser humano é uma porcaria na maior parte do tempo. Os videogames são a única coisa que torna a vida suportável.

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

To stop crying, my Raisa... laugh.

Or you can believe that you have no emotional response, feel wrapped in cotton-wool insulating yourself from the world, when in fact you are deeply grieving.

It's always okay to admit you are struggling. Why

Mother: "I'm amazed that more people don't commit suicide. They just keep on living. It's so hard and they just keep doing it." Useful

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

And then, because they were both Englishwomen and their hearts were somewhat broken, they turned back into the room and put on the kettle and made themselves a cup of tea.

Every night I had nightmares. I dreamed of rats the size of cats, dead bodies, and needles stuck into me. After we found out that the Nazi's had made soup out of Jewish fat, I dreamed that soap bars spoke to me in the voices of my parents and sisters, asking me, "Why are you washing with us?

It is not so easy to move on when your sleep is full of nightmarish memories.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

Every time I break up with a guy, I play 'Kerosene' in my car on repeat.