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chirasul @moth.gay · 24/08/2026

in mental health terms, a coping mechanism is something that distracts you from the negative effects of a mental health problem. maybe it is something that prevents you from noticing triggers, or maybe it is something that completely removes you from the triggers entirely, one way or another

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chirasul @moth.gay · 24/08/2026

as a teen and young adult, i used to have a really severe anxiety which compounded into neurosis involving emetophobia. i would put an ENORMOUS amount of effort into not throwing up. this was me avoiding the triggers. which evolved into germophobia. which made me kind of mean and stupid at times

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chirasul @moth.gay · 24/08/2026

a coping mechanism is explicitly NOT healing. the value of a coping mechanism (like the crutch example) is to lead you to healing, but if, say, your foot fully healed, yet you were so afraid of the pain that you never stopped using the crutch, eventually the use of the crutch would injure you.

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