Quotes About Coping

I think the biggest thing is knowing that those thoughts of panic are probably going to go into your brain, and just accepting it... So that's been the biggest thing. Not fighting it and trying to think I'm going to have the perfect mentality the entire time. That's not going to happen.

I used to have panic and anxiety attacks.

I was paralyzed from the chest down when I was 19, so I kind of put my head together about dying, and I think I've come to terms with it.

So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

You have to be enough of a parent - you have to be there. If I'm feeling bad, I really do just have to get on with it and try and channel it back into my work somehow, do something positive with it.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

After school, I started living on my own. After my dad passed away, I didn't know where to go and eventually decided to hang on here in Hyderabad.

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.

It's alright," he told her. "Well, really it's not. It'll never be alright, but you get, what's the word? Inured?

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

We numb our pain through denial, blaming, rationalizations, addictions, and avoidance.

I learned at that moment as ethereal tears streamed down my face and I opened the trunk to comfort a frightened little girl. There are worse things than losing. There was always winning.

Confidence and resiliency go hand in hand. When you empower children to believe in their abilities, teach them to cope with challenges, and guide them to make wise choices, they'll be confident!12

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

Food is a coping mechanism people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.

I'm not sure what good talking about stuff with a stranger week after week does for anyone. I guess therapy might be okay for people who don't really know why they're sad or angry or whatever. I'm a simple case. You're gone and I will never be the same. Never. I can talk, I can "share" until there's nothing secret left but you'll still be dead and I'll still be sad.

Credo che il motivo per cui gli adulti pensavo che una terapia regolare funzioni è perché, mentre la fanno, il tempo passa. Non stanno meglio perché ne parlano. Stanno meglio perché il tempo trascorre e loro imparano a vivere le loro vite perché devono farlo. Dobbiamo farlo

I think the reason grown-ups think regular therapy works is because time passes while they're in it. They're not really getting better because they're talking about it. They're getting better because time is passing and they're learning to live their lives again because they have to. We have to.

When you think of the Gay Plague, it's really for the best these days that we put on a cheerful face and get on with what queens do best.

There are so many ways of escaping from that which one fears, and not the least of these is hatred.

Forecasters who can't cope with the dissonance risk making the most serious possible forecasting error in a conflict: underestimating your opponent.

Mrs Bartholomew did not cry, because she had done all her crying for that so long ago.