Quotes About Coping

I had such a terrible time at school, just an awful time of being bullied.

School was my escape even if I was getting bullied.

It's wrong to become a bully yourself or to take it out on other people, and in my case, I just retreated to a place where I was safe. And that place was my imagination, books, and television.

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

We all have these emotions, but you never really want to own up to sadness. You want to bury it.

There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.

There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder than it used to be.' At a certain place you've got to say to the people, 'Suck it in and cope, buddy. Suck it in and cope.'

I just assume a lot of people hate me. You just have to suck it up.

My biggest challenge was when I had my first panic attack at 27. It's not something you can ignore, you can't sit around and get sucked into a rabbit hole.

I'm a sucker for 'Jeremy Kyle,' sad as it sounds. I just go home and watch that, or whatever the missus is watching.

I think there are always times when people want to get out of reality, because sometimes it sucks and it's difficult.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

I think getting drunk is the key to flying comfortably. A couple of bloody marys or several glasses of champagne, and suddenly it's like you're on a roller coaster.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.

I suffer from anxiety attacks a lot.

There's always pressure. People's happiness depends on you; they suffer with you. You get used to it, but you have to know how to handle it.

I suffer from anxiety, nearly every day.

I suffer from anxiety.

I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.