1295 || coping tools vs. weapons
If we look at our coping mechanisms at face value, it can add to the stress that we’re attempting to take away. It can feel like a bandaid for a symptom rather than a direct address to the roots of the problem.
But not everything can be a full uprooting of systemic damages. Sometimes, effective coping is about surviving the moment.
So let’s lump all of the coping strategies I listed (and any others you can think of), and see them for what they really are: survival tools.
They are tools to help us survive. They are strategies to protect our health internal and external in literally any way…
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