Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herself.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

Kevin Brockmeier Coping Coping Strategies Crying Dreaming Self Control Worrying

You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner turmoil and dissociation are maintained.

~ Suzette Boon

Suzette Boon Angry Conflict Coping Disorder Dissociation Dissociative Healthy Coping Inner Conflict Trauma

whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

~ Herman Melville

Herman Melville Coping Mood Sea Working Vacation

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Joyce Rachelle Coping Crisis Dealing With Crisis Disaster Feeling Hurricane Metaphor Misfortune

When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience.

~ Deborah Bray Haddock

Deborah Bray Haddock Alter Personalities Compartmentalization Coping Dissociation Dissociative Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative Parts Memory Fragmentation Multiple Personalities Ptsd Trauma Traumatic Experiences Traumatized

The psycho-babble lavished on her by her mother in a prior life found her, whispering of trauma and coping, how this was not her fault and blaming herself at all was useless. She would eventually try to believe this, as soon as she was behind her locked bedroom door.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Thomm Quackenbush Blame Coping Psychobabble Trauma

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

~ Mark Slouka

Mark Slouka Brewster Coping Mark Slouka People Weakness

I am not cured--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.

~ J. Kenner

J. Kenner Coping Self Injury Self Mutilation Stress

While the club-kid lifestyle might’ve once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn’t dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Katherine Mcintyre Club Copenhagen Coping Denmark Lifestyle

A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.

~ Steve Goodier

Steve Goodier Coping Difficuties Enjoyment Of Life Humor Joy Joyfulness Laugh Laughing Sense Of Humor

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.

~ S.r. Ford

S.r. Ford Coping Dan Barker Good Habits Self Respect