Quotes About Coping

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

When I was younger, I used humour as a tool to avoid getting too serious with people - if there was deep emotional stuff going on, then I would crack a joke to defuse the situation.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it in perspective.

I was tops at the Scarlet O'Hara school of emotional distancing. I always thought about the uncomfortable stuff tomorrow, and, as everyone knows, tomorrow never comes.

I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

When I'm in emotional pain, I usually embrace the pain, cry, and let it all out. Then I try to look on the bright side.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.

It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy.

I'm not going to drown in what I can't change.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.

To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!