Quotes About Coping

depression is a disease of thoughts.

I was scared. I couldn't not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.

Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone's life as a major factor.

She realised that she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery.

Zvija?a je v tem, da se z depresijo in tesnobnostjo spoprijateljiš, si jima hvaležen, saj ti gre potem z njima veliko laže. Z njima sem se spoprijateljil tako, da sem se jima zahvalil za ob?utljivost.

Some humans not only liked violence but craved it, I realized. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted

she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.

Some humans not only liked violence but craved it, I realized. Not because they wanted pain, but because they already had pain and wanted to be distracted from that kind of pain with a lesser kind.

I did not say how I was feeling to anyone. To say how I was feeling would lead to feeling more of what I was feeling. To act normal would be to feel a bit more normal. I acted normal.

That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.

How can we live in a mad world without going mad ourselves?

the basis of depression as well as the difference between fear and despair. Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad?

LIFE IS HARD. It may be beautiful and wonderful but it is also hard. The way people seem to cope is by not thinking about it too much. But some people are not going to be able to do that.

As Montaigne put it, "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

how can we live in a mad world without ourselves going mad? News from a nervous planet As I began researching I quickly found some attention

The human brain just isn't designed to take in a whole world's worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones.

that life deal with it,life must go on,if we dont then we find ourself in a black hole which we cant get out of....never ending depression

If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.

She tried to imagine what it would feel like to have always been alone. She decided that being alone to begin with would be easier than being left alone. Everything would be easier than that.

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer with all who are sad, to expose our heart to the passer-by for him to caress or stab? Tears and suffering and wounds are helpful to us only when they do not discourage our life.