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Quotes About Coping

While those individuals with more severe emotional disturbances will need the help of a mental health professional, individuals with more manageable problems can benefit by using the newly developed "common sense
~ David D. Burns
When you screw up real bad, you can either be afraid or you can flare out in anger and blame somebody else. Not because you don't know better, but because it's the only way to control your fear. It isn't pretty, but there's no pretty way to screw up bad.
~ David Drake
He could lose himself in a story, and for a little while it might make things bearable.
~ David Eddings
You must have been traumatized beyond fucking belief
~ David Foster Wallace
Al parecer, hay personas profundamente temerosas de sus propias emociones, en especial de las dolorosas. Penas profundas, arrepentimientos, tristezas. En especial la tristeza, tal vez. Como si algo que se siente de verdad y por completo no tuviera fin ni fondo. Algo que podría volverse infinito y atraparlos.
~ David Foster Wallace
And yet this nauseated feeling has come and gone for you in the past, it's passed eventually during prior depressions, Katherine, has it not?' 'But when you're in the feeling you forget. The feeling feels like it's always been there and will always be there, and you forget. It's like this whole filter drops down over the whole way you think about everything, a couple weeks after—
~ David Foster Wallace
What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
~ David Foster Wallace
A menudo las bromas y el sarcasmo eran la botella en la que los depresivos clínicos enviaban sus aullidos más estridentes en busca de alguien que los cuidara y ayudara.
~ David Foster Wallace
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
~ William Shakespeare
Lady Macduff: [To her son] Sirrah, your father's dead: And What will you do now? How will you live? Son: As birds do, mother. Lady Macduff: What, with worms and flies? Son: With what I get, I mean. and so do they
~ William Shakespeare
Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow! But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It
~ William Shakespeare
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it and sets it light.
~ William Shakespeare
The worst is not, so long as we can say, This is the worst.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it
~ William Shakespeare
Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.
~ William Styron
depression, which can be as serious a medical affair as diabetes or cancer.
~ William Styron
My friend Donna even likes to give humorous names to her reactive emotions such as "Freddy Fear," "Judge Judy," and "Anger Annie.
~ William Ury
At least, I did. And I think Chester did, too. In World War II. It's something every combat vet has to live with. Once a person has learned how to survive, and what must be done, that instinct lies just below the surface, very thinly covered with a civilized veneer.
~ William W. Johnstone
I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?
~ Winston Graham
Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.
~ Winston Graham
But when his mother died, even while he was crying, something within him had risen up, a barrier to shield off his weakness and tenderness and frailty. He had thought, All right, then, I've lost her and I'm alone. All right then. The adult impulse followed the childish.
~ Winston Graham
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~ Witold Gombrowicz
My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.
~ Woody Allen
I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.
~ Woody Allen