Jim Butcher Quotes

Therapy is extremely expensive. Popping bubble wrap is radically cheap.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.

I don't have time to be depressed.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

I don't ever feel the need to escape.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

To switch off, I will take a sleeping pill if I have to. I also found myself realigning things.

I know I feel crazy when I'm stressed out. You know when I don't feel crazy? When I'm in my nap pod.

I go into the kitchen and cook with music on or go for walks around my neighborhood when I feel the most overwhelmed.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

One thing I hear a lot is that people feel less stressed out after they watch 'Gourmet Makes.' There's a transference of their stress onto me.

Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.

A person comes home with all the tension of his life, he or she is totally drained due to all the stress they had faced in a days time. So what I think is whenever viewers watch me they should not be more burdened with tension but they should be relaxed.

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

I try to get enough sleep and exercise, try not to make mountains out of molehills, and vent a lot. I have a good team to support my work. I also do lots of mundane things, which will center me.

I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last two years with men, and flirting, and dating, and this thing and that thing, and so that's going to stop, and that has stopped.

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.