to keep one's sanity

Examples

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• She exercises regularly to help keep her sanity while managing a busy schedule.

• I think it is for the sole reason of keeping his sanity and as a distraction from what is happening to his wife of 55 years.

  Blog text (23)

• I write this to try and keep my sanity.

  Testament (1983)

• Got to keep her sanity

  Bringing Down the House (2003)

• But that's what kept my sanity, kept me right, kept me going.

  Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

• It's just that he's trying so very hard to do what's right to keep his sanity.

  Psycho II (1983)

• Mom... in the interest of me keeping my sanity... I think we should establish some clear-cut boundaries.

  Baggage Claim (2013)

• Janet Henry knows that to keep her sanity, she needs to indulge herself occasionally.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Luke is still taking meds to keep his sanity because of all the visions of ghosts that keep following him.

  Blog text (18)

• I'm keeping my sanity by occasionally reminding myself... that in spite of...

  Munich (2005)

Synonyms

H

to hold it together

vsto keep one's sanity

• Informal

61 5.6

Stay calm and control your feelings in a difficult situation

focuses on long term mental stability rather than short term control

K

to keep it together

vsto keep one's sanity

• Informal

27 5.4

To stay calm and control your feelings in a difficult situation

is about preserving overall mental health under prolonged stress

Antonyms

L

to lose one's mind

• Informal

1 6.7

Become very anxious, confused, or upset and act in a way that does not make sense

How Sane

to keep one's sanity

1 7.0

to cope

272 2.9

to feel stressed

6 2.8

to lose one's mind

• Informal

1 6.7

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