Jason Katims Quotes

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

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

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

A few years ago, I would let it get to me. But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don't have any stress, I'm good.

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.

Stress is part of life. It is something we all experience from time to time. Sometimes it reflects our own busy lifestyles or key moments such as exams, moving house, organising an event, or coping with a bereavement. Often it is associated with work: meeting a deadline, dealing with difficult people, or meeting stretching targets.

Anyone who is dealing with any issue or any illness whatsoever, without a support network, chances are the person will not survive.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

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 a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

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

I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow will be better. And even if it isn't, at least it isn't any worse.

I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.