Quotes About Coping

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

Repression is fantastic.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.

When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

I have friends who have lost husbands and have gone off and tried different things. Nothing wrong with that.

I never thought about being a cop. I'm kind of sensitive. I don't know if I could handle that job. It's hard to go home every day and be able to still live your own life because some of the stuff you see really affects you.

I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.

When it comes to the grieving process, we all try to ignore that feeling - but it's important to grieve. Even if something's happened for the best, you need to take that moment to feel something.

I'm very heavily trolled, but one learns to ignore such thing.

As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

People who have any kind of illness use humor as a type of coping.

In any household, whenever you are a family that's going through something tough - whether it's an illness or whatever the case may be, families tend to close their doors and become more private.

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life. That's the hope, anyway.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.

If you start to dwell on your pain, the amount of pain will increase.

At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.