"Simply put, coping mechanisms are the ways that any person handles stress, big emotions or challenging life ...

For some teens, this can be a sign of dissociation, a temporary disconnection from thoughts, feelings, body or surroundings.

In the end, trauma isn’t proof that you’re broken.Instead, it’s our species’ primordial intelligence, frozen in time. But ...

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 ...

Many people rely on “hoping skills”—such as suppressing thoughts or clinging to ineffective strategies—believing stress will disappear on its own.

“I’m dissociating” is a phrase that’s everywhere right now, from the mouths of influencers on social media to friends sharing ...

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 ...

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 ...

These thoughts haunt me when I lie in bed trying to fall asleep. I tell myself to close my eyes and turn my brain off. But instead, I recall the worst possible moments of my life in a stampede of ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — To rising comic Hannah Einbinder, her bits are for more than just laughs. She says her jokes are a coping mechanism she uses to process the tough topics she tackles in her material.