How do you deal with hardship?

A friend and I have been talking about how we deal with hard things in life. I was raised in a family where we talked about everything. If we were going through a rough time, we talked about it cried about it and then we were good to go! My friend said she was raised in a home where you didn't say you had a bad week unless someone died or you lost a limb. You just didn't talk about it. Basically, be grateful and move on. Its hard for me to see her side because I wasn't raised that way. But I was curious how most people deal with hard things in life.