Quotes About Coping

In April 2005, I lost my father and after a few days, I went to Sajid Khan's place to discuss a film role. I wanted to keep myself busy with work so that I could forget the pain of losing a parent. When I went to meet him, he randomly asked me to touch his private parts.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

Cancer is an emotional disease.

It's very hard when I've seen a couple of people very beloved in my life with terrible degenerative diseases.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

Bipolar disorder is something that is mine. And it is very difficult to talk about it.

I have a worry of people not liking me. I get scared walking into a room first, so I have to have people walk in before me so then people are distracted. It's hard.

Wrestling kept me sane during dental school. That was the hardest time of my life, and I don't know how I would have made it without the distractions of wrestling to keep me afloat.

My mother, in particular, has been very disturbed and scared since my father's death.

Keeping it simple, 'Bounce Back' explains my trust issues. I'm sure everyone can relate in some way.

I moved around so much when I was younger that I sort of had to have this type of exterior; you know, I was afraid of getting hurt.

Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.

I've certainly gone through my fair share of anxiety and depression.

Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

There's something healing about tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn't work anymore, and I had to find something else.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

This is one technique - going into my shell - that has helped me get over my disappointments.