Silence can feel unbearable for people with trauma histories. Background noise helps regulate their nervous system and ...

Are you ever surprised by the things you do to cope with stress or emotions, only to discover much later that they're actually coping mechanisms? Therapy can be a real eye-opener when it comes to ...

When life gets overwhelming, everyone develops ways to manage difficult feelings and stressful situations. These strategies often help us regain a sense of control, even if we aren’t fully aware of ...

The nine steps that form the basis of my approach to mastering stress and living well are, at a basic level, about identifying and changing harmful habits. The subject of my previous post was “Take ...

Cowritten by Sukhman Rekhi and Tchiki Davis, Ph.D. Coping mechanisms are cognitive and behavioral approaches that we use to manage internal and external stressors (Algorani & Gupta, 2021). Internal ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — A recent survey of 1,000 workers across various industries indicated a troubling rise in substance use as a coping mechanism for job stress, workplace pressure and financial strain ...

Work should never define or take over your life. Unfortunately, here are 11 things people think are normal at work but are ...

Dealing with a traumatic event, or truthfully, any event in your life that causes stress, it can be easy to escape to a daydream world. Yet, as many people will tell you escapism isn’t always the best ...

Finding ways to deal with mental health issues can be challenging. People turn to behaviors including restricted or binge eating, excessive gambling and even extreme social media use. According to the ...

Collective dissociation is preventing people from taking effective action to tackle the overwhelming climate emergency, research published in Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health has found. The ...

I slowly opened my eyes to see two women bent down, looking at me with concern. I’d collapsed in an alley after drinking myself into oblivion and was now lying with my bodily fluids. I could’ve been ...