Quotes About Coping

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I used to just cross out the parts of it that really upset me because it's such a sad book in so many ways. I'd cross out the parts that upset me, and I would rewrite new endings.

Some of my closest friends know that when I worry about something or when I'm upset, I close myself off and stay in my room. I watch movies and I don't get out of bed.

I always will tell someone, 'If you're upset about something and you don't really want to talk about it or you don't know what to do, just get up and go do something to make yourself feel better.'

I get so upset about news stories and the cruelty in the world. I can't process it. And I just think there's enough of it out there. It doesn't need me to add to it. Nobody needs Ruth Jones's take on nasty.

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Steve was such an immense person in so many ways. I never realized how much I depended on him until he was gone.

I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

It's a dynamic of grief within any family, and I found, after we lost Steve, his dad just began distancing himself. And I think it's a coping mechanism. I found it very confusing.

There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

When we reach reflexively for something to dull an ache inside of us, in that very moment of reaching, we are hiding from our pain. We're storing it away. Tamping it down.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.

There's no room inside for feeling any worse

That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow.

Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand—it only makes things worse. Sometimes, the most proactive "defense" is a mental nod and wink.

Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

Stressed' is the achiever word for 'fear.

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