Quotes About Coping

I believe and have heard from many people that one of the hardest asks anyone can make is to ask for help. When you do that, your request can make people feel helpless, out of control, less than, or irresponsible. We have the tendency to judge ourselves by looking around and seeing and hearing other people coping with life just fine without asking for help.

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself.

People with Asperger's or autism expend a huge amount of mental energy each day coping with socializing, anxiety, change, sensory sensitivity, daily living skills and so on.

Depression and I are old friends but I do not court his company.

I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends' parents — suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

Nothing is funny about war. But one must find reasons to laugh anyways, especially when nothing is funny. Sometimes joy is the only defense you have, and your only weapon. Remember that" -Sister Bert

won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.

My eyes are a little blood shot from crying, and my hair's messy. But other than that i don't look like someone who's world is falling apart" -Courtney; Two way street i love this quote. I'm not entirely sure why, but i just do. I guess probably the because it true.. once you're in that position.

Honey mustard is obviously not good for my mental state.

I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older

To survive, you must develop secondary emotions that function in a strategic balance with reason.

Attempts to stop smoking or give up any sort of self-destructive addictive behavior such as drugs, alcohol, hypersexuality, overeating, or overworking, often fail because it is very difficult to give up a means of self-regulation even when it is unhealthy until it can be replaced with a better form of self-regulation.

The coping strategies that initially helped us survive as children over the years become rigid beliefs about who we are and what the world is like. Our beliefs about ourselves and the world, together with the physiological patterns associated with these beliefs, crystallize into a familiar sense of who we are. This is what we come to view as our identity.

Affect dysregulation

As a result of the earliest trauma, individuals with the Connection Survival Style have disconnected from their bodies, from themselves, and from relationship. Connection types have two seemingly different coping styles or subtypes: the thinking and the spiritualizing subtypes.

Si je n'avais pas ce cahier, je crois que je me serais lentement laissée aller au désespoir. Je ne savais pas que les mots peuvent sauver. Aujourd'hui, je le sais : il maintiennent le lien à soi. Ils permettent de ne pas s'égarer dans la nuit profonde de la folie.

Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best.

My life sucks. So I shave my head.

You'll always be sad about this," Mia said softly. "But it doesn't mean you made the wrong choice. It's just something that you have to carry.

You never got what you wanted ; you just learned to get by without it.

Chloe thought madly about tiny FM radios that she could hide in her ear and pull her hair over to hide, about getting very badly drunk or stoned, about getting one of the loopier Wiccans at school to put her into a trance before the reading. Anything that could get her through it with her sanity intact and a straight face.

He who sings scares away his woes.