Quotes About Coping

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

I've discovered I'm a strong and capable person. I can handle almost anything except being alone with this.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.

We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.

I try to stay positive and keep my head up right, but I really do have a lot of anxiety.

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

When people say, 'You have Alzheimer's,' you have no idea what Alzheimer's is. You know it's not good. You know there's no light at the end of the tunnel. That's the only way you can go. But you really don't know anything about it. And you don't know what to expect.

When I was running away, I didn't have somebody there to help me run away. All I had was DMX's voice or Eminem's voice or Tupac's voice.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

I hate flying. The first time I flew with my wife, Najat, was the first time I'd ever flown in my life, and that was just a short flight to Turkey. I spent the whole time with my shirt pulled over my head. Then I got used to it.

When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

I've been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It's a healing thing, and it's a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Unfiltered venting to a friend about difficult situations can be helpful. But it can work against you if your life turns into complaining.

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

They say that when a woman wants to end a relationship, she cuts off all of her hair. I've done that twice in my marriage but am still married.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.