Family Coping Quotes

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.

I go to therapy a lot. And I'm - I'm open about that, and I try to get the help so that I - so that I can cope and - and make my way in life and with my family.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

Both my parents developed dementia in their old age. Everyone I know whose parents had dementia feel that they didn't deal with it very well.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.

There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.