“When you’re still having a reaction to something upsetting that happened a long time ago, it means that you need to do more work processing that trauma and that you need more effective coping mechanisms.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com
“Yeah, the real world sucks, deal with it like the rest of us.”— Kate Trefry, Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Jovan Taylor, Jonathan Byers, Steve Heaton, imdb.com
“Know that I am scared and won't be able to explain why, so please don't freak out or be annoyed with me.”— Kelsey Darragh, uk.style.yahoo.com
“Many have said that it doesn’t get better, but you get better; better-equipped for dealing and coping and thriving.”— Tavi Gevinson, rookiemag.com
“In the beginning, a little less than a year ago, I was making music and painting as a form of almost like meditation. There was something therapeutic in doing it. It was more about just kind of coping with things and reflecting on things as I was doing it. The act of just sitting down and making thi…”— Mike Shinoda, billboard.com
“Clay Jensen: I couldn't...I couldn't tell her. I couldn't hold her. I killed Hannah Baker. Like you said. Tony Padilla: I said we all killed Hannah. Clay Jensen: How am I supposed to live with that? Tony Padilla: Any way you can.”— Diana Son, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com
“I was swallowing my secrets and making my body expand and explode. I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied — the hunger to stop hurting. I made myself bigger. I made myself safer.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.”— Lady Bird Johnson, thoughtco.com
“I pretend I’m not hurt, I walk about the world like I’m having fun.”— Lana Del Rey, open.spotify.com
“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“For those suffering from depression, the world has fallen apart every day and is put back together the next day.”— Emily Casalena, screenrant.com
“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and heroin and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“When you have a mental illness, you don’t get a manual from the doctor about how to cope. Sure, in the clinical sense, you might get an idea of what to do or anticipate but it does not always match the unique, individual experience.”— Jamie Berube, thoughtcatalog.com
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”— Virginia Satir, goodreads.com
“Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.”— Jean Chatzky, nydailynews.com
“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”— Brian Tracy, books.google.com
“Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com