Make Your Damn Bed2 Des 2024

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 that our brain possibly can. So they are morally neutral. Not bad, not good.

A hammer can be a valuable tool or a dangerous weapon, depending on how it’s yielded. So check your tools, sure, but also don’t be afraid to check in with your wielding strategies, too.

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