There are many ways to cope with stress, but it is important to differentiate between negative and positive coping methods.
Anything that harms you in any way is a negative coping method, something that should be avoided. Unfortunately many resort to unhealthy coping methods, making situations worse. Negative coping methods tend to be temporarily too.
Positive coping methods are something that actually helps you to emotionally recover and destress.
There are many ways to cope with stress, it can be something that is physically relaxing that can lead to emotional relaxation or direct emotional relaxation. For example, relaxing in a hot tub will be physically relaxing which leads to emotional destress as you begin to think positively due to the more room of thought you have for your emotional stress as physical stress is eliminated. A example of direct coping is going to therapy or talking to someone. Being able to let everything out and have someone listen to you can help you destress as you now know that someone understands how you’re feeling and you feel support. They can even advise you on what you can do to actually solve the stress helping you both cope and solve the issue.
The bottom line and importance of coping with stress, and generally anything, is knowing how to avoid the negative coping methods and getting the right help/support to destress.
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