Quotes About Coping

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind.

I grew up in a house full of faith, and my mother died when I was a little girl, and I found comfort in my faith.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.

I went last week to get hypnotized. To quit smoking. And the hypnotist said, 'The reason you smoke is you're bitter and depressed.' No, the reason I smoke is the little sucker tastes so good.

In the days following 9/11, when we were reeling and disoriented, there was a kind of solace to be found in old recordings, and even pseudo-folk singers like James Taylor seemed to be safeguarding something, drawing back bygone days.

If I feel down, I can do what I've always done - go see a friend, walk the dog, have a cup of tea.

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Sergeant Samuel Allen, Jr., a former college student who had led his own swing band in the palmy days of peace, tried to explain in a letter home the flinty nihilism that made young men at war seem so old when they contemplated the dead. "We have found that it is best to forget about those friends, not to talk about them," he wrote. "They don't even exist.

A lot of the people dancing were the same ones I had seen the night before. One of them, Ted Couvillion, said hello. "My wife died of cancer two years ago," he said. He vanished into his grief, until his friends dragged him out dancing. Now, every week, he dances and dances his way out of heartache. I can't dance a lick. But I have two bags of cracklin's in the trunk of my car.

You could pay Arthur Janov to teach you to scream about history, or you could learn prayer or a mantra, or you could write your life down and hope to make peace with it, write it down, or paint it, or turn it into improvisational theater, but that was the best you could probably do. You were stuck.

He seemed as though he were habitually preparing himself for something awful, and this was justified because many awful things had happened to him.

Over the years I had devised an elaborate syllabus of coping techniques for spending time with Nick.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

felt, he couldn't start crying. He didn't want anyone to see him cry and feel sorry for him. Most important,

When you hear a request, it's your job to understand the motivations which led to it. You do that by digging around the question to find the root cause. Why do they bother doing it this way? Why do they want the feature? How are they currently coping without the feature? Dig.

One night you delete all your suicide notes from your computer. If things go bad again, it's not like you can't write a new one.

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.