Quotes About Coping

Drinking when you are depressed is like throwing kerosene on a fire", I read in another self-help book at the bookstore. What depression felt like a fire? I think, shoving the book back on the shelf.

IN ONE OF his last psychoanalytic papers, D. W. Winnicott wrote: Fear of breakdown is the fear of a breakdown that has already been experienced.

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.

She discovers that it is possible to cry all day and all night. That there are many different ways to cry: the sudden outpouring of tears, the deep, racking sobs, the soundless and endless leaking of water from the eyes.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

I just stopped living with grief and instead let grief live with me.

Anchors. You had to be your own anchor. By now there was no escaping this knowledge. Still she had been trained to look for them and despite all that had happened, she had not got over the habit.

Manipulative coping, however, is an unproductive cycle.

The major stumbling block for coping well with our conflicts in living with each other is set up when we interfere with another person's decision-making process, when we routinely manipulate our fellow man's wants by making him feel anxiously threatened, guilty, or ignorant.

Debemos defender a los ídolos que creamos, para defendernos a nosotros mismos, para no desesperarnos

A broken heart hurts like hell, I know, but it's better than being so empty you've got nothing to cry about.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you.

Les larmes entraînent les chagrins loin de la peine.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you. I don't know who said that, but I know it's the truth.

Imagining the worst has always been a great comfort to me. If there is turbulence there is an imminent crash. If she doesn't pick up the phone, she is fucking someone. If there is a lump it is a tumor. By thinking like this I protect myself from disappointment. And if anything other than the worst-case scenario unfolds, what a pleasant surprise!

In one study, when children learned how to cope with frustration during the day, they were observed to settle themselves better at bedtime and later at night when they awoke.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

It is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Trauma occurs when something happens that's too horrible for your brain to deal with, so you just store it away. Over time, the horrible thing, which is still there, starts coming out in a variety of ugly ways, causing mental problems that you don't even associate with the trauma because it happened so long ago.

Never ever say: It couldn't be worse.