Quotes About Coping

She scarcely ever had a moment to herself, but she was grateful for that, too. When she was alone, the things she had seen and done the day of the uprising rushed into her mind, like filthy water into a holed boat, and dragged her down so quickly she felt she was drowning.

I don't do sober any more. Sober hurts.

the long-term effect of living in survival mode is that we begin to thrive on—and become addicted to—these stress chemicals.

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head.

He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of calls she could expect to be on hold until she was dead.

She didn't like to feel things so intensely. It reminded her of being crazy.

People have pretty rubbery brains. They can take quite a bit of bouncing around. Come on. Band-Aids and tea. And answers. They're all right this way.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up.

I've already visited the lost and lonely place at the end of the world, and all I know is, the only way to keep going is to do the things the people you loved would've wanted you to do.

My memory is a scary place: you need a flashlight and a gun so as not to get mugged in there.

Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make up reasons why.

Depression isn't a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences!

The goal was to offer the patient two things at the same time. The first was an opportunity to describe the traumatic experience—to craft a story about it, so the patient could make sense of it. As this experiment began, one of the things they discovered almost immediately is that many of the patients had literally never before acknowledged what happened to them to another human being.

An antidepressant, they have learned, isn't just a pill. It's anything that lifts your despair.

Ich sag euch, ich hab schon so viel Malheur g'habt, und allzeit durch meine Räusch. Wann ich mir meinen Verdruß nit versaufet, ich müßt mich grad aus Verzweiflung dem Trunk ergeben.

Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books to understand myself better.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

The reality is that life, for all of us, is pretty stressful and we all need ways to cope.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.