Quotes About Coping

What we have become is typically an assemblage of defense mechanisms and anxiety-management systems generated by the adaptive needs that our fate-fueled biographies bring to us.

It is much easier to deny, blame others, project elsewhere, or bury it and just keep on rolling.

en reuniones como ésta vienen a nuestra mente pensamientos tristes: el recuerdo del pasado, de la juventud, de los cambios, de rostros desaparecidos a los que echamos en falta esta noche. Nuestro viaje por la vida está jalonado de esos tristes recursos y, si tuviésemos que estar pensando en ellos todo momento, no encontraríamos el valor de acabar nuestra obra entre los vivos

But a line sergeant told me something I never forgot. 'Don't think about it before it happens, and don't think about it when it's over.

When society dropped its hammer on your head, well, there it is. Soup

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

It's all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.

Fang is not the huggiest person in the world—he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which

Here's the best I've come up with about recovering from the death of somebody we love. It goes like this. When we're little, maybe one or so, we learn how to walk. Somehow we figure out how to get up on our two feet and take a scary step forward. Maybe we fall down. But we get up again. We take another step. We move forward. We move on. We just don't forget.

Here's the best I've come up with about recovering from the death of somebody we love. It goes like this. When we were little, maybe one or so, we learn how to walk. Somehow we figure out how to get up on our 2 two feet and take a scary step forward. Maybe we fall down. But we get up again. We take another step. We move forward. We move on. We just don't forget.

But being mentally ill wasn't like drowning, even if it sometimes felt like it. Because the thing about drowning is that someone else can save you, whether you want them to or not. And the thing about struggling with mental illness is that you have to be part of saving yourself.

Maeve had been dead for almost a year now, and in all that time, I hadn't found any new ways to cope with it -- only new ways to miss her.

Look at PTSD as weight," she says. "If you're carrying, say, five pounds, you can fix that. If you're carrying five hundred pounds, you'll die.

wondered at the human brain's ability to seize on some terrible personal event and let that event define and control every action for years, decades, even lifetimes.

That's my defense mechanism—do the best job I can and move on.

When you grow up hard, when you grow up surviving, unfortunately, it helps.

Loss is a part of life, unfortunately, and you've got to just deal with it.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.