Quotes About Coping

She doesn't approve of either sentimentality or graveyard humor at crime scenes. She says they waste time that should be spent working on the damn case, but the implication is that coping strategies are for wimps.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall. That's nothing more than instinct, falling back on what you know best.

If you need a few tips on coping, ask me now.

Various therapists and psychiatrists have diagnosed various things along the way, but what it comes down to is that Dina is no good at life. It takes a knack that she's never quite got hold of.

But children are pragmatic, they come alive and kicking out of a whole lot worse than orphanhood.

I don't want to give the impression that my life was blighted by what happened at Knocknaree, that I drifted through twenty years as some kind of tragic figure with a haunted past, smiling sadly at the world from behind a bittersweet veil of cigarette smoke and memories.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall.

My mother used to say to me that she collected sorrows and put them in her pocket. Walking around with them that way, by and by, you just learn to carry them all a bit better, to stand up a bit straighter. That's all life is, on this earth anyway.

schema responses are overreactions, not appropriate responses to difficult situations.

schema therapy, which focuses on repairing maladaptive emotional habits.

Staying occupied is a socially sanctioned way of remaining distant from our pain.

I'm not being spiteful, I'm trying to figure out how to live with this new reality.

I had a weight pressing on my soul and I dolled my way out from under it.

You cannot let this destroy you," he said. Finally Gloria showed up and gave me one of those "nerve pills" that all mothers stash in their pocketbooks. Long story short: I slept it off, whatever possessed me. I recovered and went to my opening at the Hammonds House the next day.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh." And I did. At first, I was driven by an urge to be polite, to humor an old man, but something in my chest lubricated and I cackled like a crazy person the way you let loose when you suspect that God isn't laughing with you but laughing at you.

No podría vencer su dolor; pero al menos podría fingir que no era tan grande o que podría soportarlo.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

This is the second-worst thing that's ever happened to these orphans in their lives.

[W]hen you're dealing with stress, the problem may not be the stressful situation, as much as the effort to avoid that situation and the feelings it arouses.

Abject terror at one's dire surroundings is oft mitigated by strong drink, I find.

In public Neil was able to mask his grief as adults are expected to, but in the privacy of his apartment, the floodgates of emotion burst open.

When, because of the parasites of trauma, we refuse to deal with the trauma, we're stuck with horrific emotional pain. That's when we can do things we don't understand, because the trauma discs have kicked in. Some folks have an entire library of them. As a result, we can end up acting "crazy.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.