Quotes About Coping

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

But the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating from fear is what we do naturally. We habitually spin off and freak out when there's even the merest hint of fear. We feel it coming and we check out.

In the early seventies, a friend kept saying to me, 'Whatever you do, don't try to make those feelings go away.' His advice went on: 'anything you can learn about working with your sense of discouragement or your sense of fear or your sense of bewilderment - anything you can do to work with those things - do it., please, because it will be such an inspiration to other people.

Each day, we're given many opportunities to open up or shut down. The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we can't handle whatever is happening.

When a thing's happened to you it's no good shoving it away and pretending it hasn't. You can go off your head that way.' 'Battles?' 'Not just battles,' said Bill with a snort. 'Most of us don't get mixed up with battles, do we? Anything. Everything.' Everything? 'It's what you do about things that makes you the kind of bloke you are,' said Bill.

Feelings also may be inescapable, Edward learned, but there are ways of cheating them. Of diverting them. Of hiding from them. Your own howls can be drowned out by the howls of the rest of the world, if you set about it properly. If you are naturally self-deprecating, and exceptionally under-endowed with egotism, the process comes almost naturally. Eventually you are exercised only about the atrocities around. Or so it can seem.

Will you be all right? Heater on twice, color contrast down, and keep hitting buttons on the extractor fan until it stops or I go mad. I think I can manage that.

Fight it, and the bad memories will consume you, like all diseases. I have seen it happen . .

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Whatever you fear will happen to you, booze will make it happen.

Logically, Sherri should have squeezed every moment of pleasure out of life during her remission, but the mind does not function logically, as Fat had figured out. Sherri spent her time anticipating the loss of her remission.

Nós dois caímos na gargalhada. Quando você está quase louco de dor, você ri do que puder.

sometimes the best response to reality is to go insane

For a guy with only one peeper, Olsen commented, you're doing okay. Morosely, he added: But you'd sure be up shit creek if you lost the other.

O que ele não sabia na época era que às vezes uma reação adequada à realidade é enlouquecer.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present.

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

I said we aren't here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we're here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander around looking for bright sides and good things is like telling me to hurry up and get dead.

the reality is posttraumatic growth happens more than posttraumatic stress.

are attempts to regain some of the control I felt I lost when my mother died.