Quotes About Coping

Popular religion is a coping mechanism for the anxieties of a dysfunctional social and economic environment.

[L]ife is more than just steering a course around pain.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it's presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Many years later, a psychiatrist friend of mine said something to us. He said, "Respect denial." It's a powerful force.

People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long.

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

When I sit in my bedroom with a book and a bottle of vodka, I do it because I'm sad, not because I think it's cool. I do it because I want to forget what I am thinking about.

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

I had been handed what might be called a full menu of all the troubles in my life while still too young to read it. But all I had to do was spread my napkin and face the table.

El autoengaño era mi último rayo de esperanza.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Like most addictions, sex is used to take away pain or to temporarily ignore it. If you are not in control of your life, but your life is controlled by your sexual urges, then you need to seek help.

minutes?" Jason was on the edge, and I was falling over the cliff with him. I wasn't sure I could handle everything in one day after all. I would've preferred another day of everyone kicking my ass and getting hit by

The great challenge today is not hegemony, but turmoil, and coping with the latter requires strategic vision, firmness of purpose, and a clear sense of our values (p. 190).

I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.

Drugs aren't always about feeling good. Many times they're about feeling less.

It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished. Mrs. Miracle