What are your coping mechanisms?
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Thread Topic: What are your coping mechanisms?
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I know it differs depending on the situation, but I'm curious to know how you guys cope with problems. (Either socially or mentally!)
I have a bad habit of trying to nap my problems away. It's a huge hit or miss on whether it works out for me, though. I also tend to sit either with or without music and stare at the ceiling. Sometimes, this leads to overthinking. Other times, my brain shuts down, and it lets me get a breather. -
My coping mechanisms are definitely not the best socially. If someone's being judgmental or something, I go into war mode. Tons of people here can verify.
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I play video games, write, listen to music. Those are my healthy coping mechanisms
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eat
cry
draw angsty anime characters
bubble bath
sleep for an entire day
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lol I put on some decent chill music and sleep
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Sleep seems to be a cure all I guess xD
Mostly anything else. As long as I do something different to take me away from whatever I've spent way too much time in. So basically just doing the opposite of whatever is stressing me. People annoy me? Stay home. Parents annoy me? Go out. Online and internet being a pain? Go read a book. So stuff like that -
Dissociation, sleeping, eating, daydreaming, self-injury, and hyper-fixation.
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Um...happy thoughts?
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Escaping :D
Whether that means roleplaying, reading, drawing, writing, sleeping, listening to music, or just plain and simply thinking and crafting fantasy worlds and stories in my head- it depends on the situation, time, and place
Those are just the healthy options though, there's also:
Drawing on myself with pen
Pinching myself (don't worry it doesn't usually get so bad that I have to do it often or anything)
Push my frustration onto other people, not in a way that's obvious, and not in a way where I yell at them or anything, but in a way that makes me slowly come to hate them and find every fault with them (mostly family members)
That's about it, the unhealthy list used to be longer, but luckily I stopped the... extremely bad coping mechanisms -
Unhealthy coping methods of mine
Social withdrawal
Cutting
Hitting myself
Mainly s--- that's just unhealthy for me and probably sad for others if they notice
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Good coping! I write, paint, do origami, watch memes, plan music videos :)
Bad coping! Isolation, drinking socially, lonely smoking -
Idk anymore really. I have a really bad habit of not always opening up about stuff/bottling things up. I usually will exercise, or draw. Ir I'll just temporarily distract myself by trying to make myself laugh.
Ultimately I just go back to not being able to cope with things and the unhealthy cycle starts over -
For me I need help when I have to cope. I have to have other people go away from me for a moment so I can calm down.
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It depends on what I am trying to calm down from. When I get really stressed or anxious, I will chew on the inside of my cheek.I started doing it when I was little when I was scared because of watching/hearing my mother getting beaten by various boyfriends. I've almost chewed a hole through my cheek before.
The last time I went to the dentist for a cleaning, the first thing she said when she looked into my mouth was that my cheeks looked like ground beef.
Some people cut or burn themselves. I chew on the inside of my cheeks. -
My coping mechanisms are Zero's, actually, and even social withdrawal. I also draw.
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