Quotes About Coping

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. the reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this [crappy], messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

You have you let the tears come," she always says. "Because if you don't, they'll come out eventually – maybe not as tears, but as anger or something else.

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to "lay low.

Every forty seconds, someone in the world dies by suicide. Every forty seconds, someone is left behind to cope with the loss.

By the time I started eating- really eating- the loss was already so big it felt like I was carrying around the world. So carrying around the weight wasn't any heavier. It was trying to carry around both that got to be too much. Which is why sometimes you have to set some of it down. You can't carry all of it forever.

You are a survivor, and as that unwelcome designation implies, your survival - your emotional survival - will depend on how well you learn to cope with your tragedy. The bad new: Surviving this will be the second worst experience of your life. The good news: The worst is already over.

What you'll have to do now is ride the rap, as they say. It's all anybody has to do.

On cause de son mal, on ne se coupe pas le cÅ"ur en quatre tout d'un coup, on s'habitue à la séparation, enfin !

I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own.  That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when I am pushed to extremity!

There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.

Some things will never be okay.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

You have to laugh at yourself sometimes, cause you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

The sadness ? the general sadness that squats and pees inside my brain ? isn't over. It never will be. I know how best to chase it away, though. It usually works. Sometimes it doesn't. But I pray and say, fuck it, then. I choose this. It chooses me. I choose it back.

he would simply have to repress the emotions he was experiencing. Very unhealthy, psychologically speaking

This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Denial is a defense mechanism, all about self-preservation.

În fiecare zi furam sticle de alcool, le îngropam pe cele goale È™i aveam nevoie de cantit??i din ce în ce mai mari ca s?-mi alung gândurile.

No, things are not okay, but I must compartmentalize. Just because there's a problem in one life-box doesn't mean it has to create a problem in all my other life-boxes.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot and that was how I dealt with it.