what does it mean to you...

limestone · Post by **limestone** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:52 am

the word: coping?

cariad · Post by **cariad** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:59 am

to be able to deal with any emotion in a healthy way.

what about ytou/ you ask all these cool , insightfull questions but dont answer tham yourself. im not being harsh, just intrested.

jo_alone · Post by **jo_alone** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:10 pm

"Coping" to me means to be able to live, to be able to accept any major event without an extreme reaction. I (obviously) don't cope well with crises but also on the other side, if there is a major *happy* event, I find that hard to deal with. Any strong emotion really.

I used to think coping meant just struggling along, that I was coping, I was still here despite everything. But I wasn't coping then, just existing.

It means learning to accept my emotions and to manage my reaction to them.

Good question limestone

Love

Jo

Proximity · Post by **Proximity** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:09 pm

that's an interesting question.
I think that originally coping just meant to be able to get through, you know, like survive or something.
but now it has taken on a greater meaning and implies quality of life as well, I think just because what used to be working on "coping" has now become working on "living"

prox.

[hello depression you're back again]

limestone · Post by **limestone** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:39 pm

ok, well for me it means being able to accept and let things go, to have a reasonable level of happiness, to not be hurting myself to deal with situations/feelings, to not be afraid of emotions and to take positive risks turning them into challenges: not giving up, to keep going when you need to hang in there.

tenar · Post by **tenar** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 2:09 pm

to me, coping means being able to encounter things and not let them becoming overwhelming, or if they do overwhelm for a while being able to push off and then get on with relative contentment.

though my definition of coping differs with whatever i'm having problems doing at the mmoent. a few months ago i would have said that coping was not cutting, now i say it is being able to maintain a reasonable level of contentment, and no letting things become overwhilming.

xx

sassy koala · Post by **sassy koala** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 5:12 pm

surviving

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:48 am

i sortof have a few levels of coping:
1) not wanting to die right then and there or actively being suicidal
2) being functional as a person in the real world
3) actually being an honestly happy person.

whenever one of my friends asks me if i'm ok, i always ask her to define ok. those are pretty much our three standard definitions.

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