Healthy Coping Mechanisms Quotes

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Stress is not...a badge of courage

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts

I used to bottle up all of my emotions and never say anything. Even if something really made me mad, I'd be quiet.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

Characters in TV and theatre tend to experience a lot of conflict, so I push myself through sport to physical and emotional levels that hurt so I've some other reference for extreme experience that isn't me shouting at my girlfriend or my mum. It's a way of controlling the uncontrollable.

I've had people that I've given up on, kicked out - situations where I was becoming part of the problem because I was sort of enabling so I said, 'Godspeed, farewell.' And they've come back to me four years later and they're in a CDAAC program or they're getting a PhD.

I don't think punching lockers is the way forward for anyone. There's only going to be one winner there.

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed?

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.

Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

I think that I am a compulsive person, but now I'm learning to put those compulsions into healthy things.

It's important that you take care of yourself and blow off steam in the right way. Don't let some woman walk in and say, "hey, goodbye!" and take your man. Kill her if you can! I'm only kidding.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

When people ask me about drugs and alcohol, I say "Yeah, I went to rehab, I went to a mental hospital, I've been to jail." The main lesson you can learn is do drugs and alcohol when you are in a good mood, not when you are in a bad mood, and find balance in anything you do.

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

Reacting to the world with a smile instead of a curse, a wave instead of the middle finger, will actually help you live longer.

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.

If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.