Quotes About Coping

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

I know my heart will never be the same but I'm telling myself I'll be okay...

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

I've taken on this task to keep me from staring into the gloom and being frightened. For I am frightened. Fear creeps up on me from all sides, and I don't want to wait until it gets to me and overpowers me. I shall write until darkness falls, and this new, unfamiliar work should make my mind tired, empty and drowsy. I'm not afraid of morning, only of the long, gloomy afternoons.

Up to a certain point one can get very used to pain; as I couldn't make my legs better, I got used to the pain.

Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, "This isn't happening to me.

Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Three year in prison and a dick is just another thing to put up your ass.

When you come into the real truth about yourself, you realize that the only person equipped to handle it is you. Some men can't even handle that, which is why Bellevue always full.

Living through a day was harder, for no matter how much I stomp one down another was always coming. Watching the little poison frog take on a day is how I learn to live through it. First rip the day in half, time to sleep, time to walk. Then tear it down more, then more, and more after that. Tear a day into pieces you can swallow and soon the whole thing will pass.

People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

People like us… we all have places that don't heal entirely. We just get used to the occasional stab of pain and keep going.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

I tuned down my pain sensors and the impact sites faded from explosions down to embers. (I know that's actually not a permanent solution and pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy in the long run, but there was nothing I could do about it now.)

I said: "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on." They all stopped talking and stared at me.

Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.

And "weak" wasn't really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn't have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn't a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, "It's not weak." The