How come coping mechanisms are never healthy?

Posted by Eddie Sylvano on December 11, 2002, at 14:51:18

It seems like 90% of the psychological problems people manifest are coping mechanisms for some trauma or fear. No one teaches them the mechanism they end up using... it's relatively "natural." That being the case, why hasn't nature provided for us to naturally develop *decent* coping skills? I mean, evolution has provided us with useful stuff like reflexes to get out of the way of sudden harm, laughter to help us enjoy conceptual incongruity, and shock that lets us float away from immediate trauma without undue pain. Still, when it comes to the intense and even mild abuse of the everyday world, we uniformly develop self-destructive, snowballing, bad habits without any instruction. Maybe someday when we don't have tailbones anymore...

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How come coping mechanisms are never healthy? Eddie Sylvano 12/11/02
Re: How come coping mechanisms are never healthy? WorryGirl 12/11/02
Re: How come coping mechanisms are never healthy? » WorryGirl Eddie Sylvano 12/11/02
Re: How come coping mechanisms are never healthy? coral 12/11/02
Re: How come coping mechanisms are never healthy? » Eddie Sylvano Dinah 12/11/02
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