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joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:
@iro_miya the way I look at it, an unhealthy coping mechanism is one where, in the long term, it does more harm than it prevents.
drug addictions are a typical example because you might use them to deal with a short-term problem and then be stuck with them for a long time, but there's many other kinds, like developing communication habits that protect you in one specific environment but that will impair your communication with everyone *outside* that environment forever after that.
healthy coping mechanisms I would consider to be the ones that may still have a negative effect in the moment, or even a mild negative effect in the long term, but where the harm arising from that is meaningfully below that of the thing it's protecting you from - ie. you'd be worse off long-term if you *didn't* have it.