Quotes About Coping

her old friends. Later, when they had a few minutes alone, she mentioned to Ben that tomorrow would be a difficult day for Lucy. 'God only knows how she'll cope when she goes to the churchyard and sees little Jamie's grave. It's bound to bring it all back with a vengeance.' Ben had few doubts. 'Your mother will cope like she always does,' he assured her. 'She's the strongest, most determined woman I

Dopo una tragedia, molti dei superstiti si sentono perduti.

We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.

You go to bed, too, and don't fret, hear me? Things feel hard now, but it will pass. Everything passes, and something new comes along to fill the space.' As she spoke, her tone shifted. She wasn't talking about me anymore. 'You can't go around holding the worst thing you ever did in your hand, staring at it. You gotta cook supper, put gas in the car.

You did what you had to do." He started,sure he had heard her wrong. "Oh,don't mistake me, I have no more liking for being staked out like a goat than would the next person. Still, it was a good plan, all things considered.

missing a crucial layer of skin other people had that allowed them to get through the day when he could not.

Outside the hospital," said Benavides with a hint of impatience, "I do not speak of my terminal patients. It's a decision I made many years ago and it still seems the best decision I ever made. One has to keep one's lives separate, Vasquez. If not, one can go crazy. This is exhausting, it sucks one's energy. And like any other person, I have limited energy.

No se fue sin luchar, simplemente luchó de una forma distinta.

I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.

And sometimes, even though Dad said Dr. Snow was the best psychologist in the city and a very famous man, Jess thought there were things he didn't know either. "Time heals all wounds," he'd said to them once, his voice so soft and thoughtful he could have been talking to himself. It had seemed a cruel thing to say, though Jess knew he hadn't meant to be unkind. Vida had been really angry with him. "No, it doesn't!" she shouted. "You're wrong! It doesn't!

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.

It's all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

Denying the reality of my experience—that was the most harmful. Not being able to trust anyone was the most serious effect. . . . I know I acted in ways that were despicable. But I wasn't crazy. Some people go around acting like that because they feel hopeless. Finally I found a few people along the way who have been able to feel OK about me even though I had severe problems. Good therapists were those who really validated my experience.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

need to read my Advantages Response Card at least twice a day if I want to resist temptation. It'll take only a few seconds. It's not a big deal. I might not need it psychologically today, but I'll need it soon. I have to cement these reasons in my mind for when the going gets tough.

I was a girl crying in the middle of a crowd, and nobody noticed. Maybe there was something awful about that, but there was something good, too. I would dry my own tears. I opened my eyes and kept on walking. ~Kit

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

Because that's what you do when something terrible happens. You go over and over every little thing, looking for clues, trying to find a pattern and a way to make sense out of the muddle and hurt.

The sadness that overwhelms us, the retardation that paralyzes us, are also a shield—sometimes the last one—against madness

For someone who fears being left... you sure do a lot of running.

Hay gentes dispuestas a creer lo increíble porque les resulta más consolador que afrontar la realidad

Nadie puede salir indemne de tanto sufrimiento. —La cuestión es aprender a vivir con ello-