Maladaptive coping Quotes

For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop, lived with my dad in a shitpad.

External means of escape like alcohol, drug use, and even overeating are a means of pushing uncertainty away and covering it up temporarily. And they may feel comforting for a moment, but I don't need to tell you that eventually they will cause more trouble than they ever solve.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.

Whining about your own, others', or the world's failings is a main element in what we usually call neurosis.

Neurosis is just a high-class word for whining.

I've always had this impulse to be destructive.

The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.