Conan O'Brien Quotes

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

I had kind of a rough childhood, so I created my own reality.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

I have been dealing with illness and its manifestations since I was a teenager, and I think that gives me a very healthy respect for the things in life we can't control.

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment.