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Many people find talking therapies and coping techniques like cognitive behavioural therapy really useful.
Now they're talking about coping techniques, strategies, frigging "mindfulness", hospices … this is only going to end one way: death.
By recognizing what triggers your need to cut, you can start developing new coping techniques.
All my life I had struggled with anxiety and had learned coping techniques, but this was different.
This study investigated specific coping techniques for effectiveness in reducing cocaine use after treatment.
"I learned coping techniques that are not really different from those that would be used for people with memory loss," she said in an interview.
She outlines coping techniques, and concludes, "Only you can and will develop little tricks to get you through your fog times -- hang in there, you will learn them".
In the book you write about addiction to drugs, alcohol, medication, relationships, calorie control, the internet… what have been the most and least effective coping techniques for you?
Tiger Woods calls this being in the hunt, where coping techniques rehearsed and mastered keep maladaptive aggression from distracting the athlete from the primary goal: winning.
For anosmia caused by head trauma, there is currently little that can be done; the biggest thing for these patients is "giving them the time of day" and making them aware of coping techniques.
