Quotes About Coping

In fact, most women who are sexually assaulted do not resist. The fear is overwhelming. They often feel helpless. Sometimes they make a conscious choice not to resist because they are afraid if they resist, they will be hurt even worse.

traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There

Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

The only way to avoid despair was not to involve himself at all.

her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

A drawback of email was that you could only delete it once: couldn't crumple it up, fling it to the floor, stomp on it, rip it to shreds, and burn it. Was there anything crueler, from the person who'd rejected you, than compassionate forbearance?

What's it do?" she said. "Absolutely nothing," Hibbard replied, "if you are in perfect mental health. However, let's face it, who is?

When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: "This family talks to God.

there are only some many times you can utter It does not hurt before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

I didn't understand why I needed help, because it seemed to me that you should wear heavy boots when your dad dies, and if you aren't wearing heavy boots, then you need help.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

Trebuie sa marturisesc ca am capatat depresie atunci si inca mai am.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…

Si bien es obvio, o debería serlo, que el duelo no es una enfermedad, podemos encontrar en las estadísticas médicas algunos datos inquietantes: – 90% de las personas sufren trastornos del sueño durante el duelo, – 50% padecen seudoalucinaciones auditivas o visuales, – 50% tienen síntomas similares a los que condujeron al fallecido a la muerte, – 4% de parientes cercanos fallecen en el primer año de duelo.

es menos duro sobrellevar un acontecimiento espantoso que imaginarlo y aguardarlo sin fin

Why did we make up nicknames? Maybe they were easier to remember. Maybe, too, they just made frightening things more familiar, even a little funny in the midst of the seriousness of war.

The Neanderthal graves and bear sanctuaries, our earliest certain evidences of religious ritual, point to an attempt to cope with the imprint of death.

Don't worry about me. Go and enjoy yourself. I'll stay here and be miserable.

That is the saving grace of humor. If you fail no one is laughing at you.

I haven't the strength to be happy, she wants to say. I can hardly even manage to be unhappy.