How your coping mechanisms may be interfering with your happiness

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni

Therapy, Emotions, Sad, Health, Mental Health, Personal, Abuse, Anxiety, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Psychological, Self-improvement, Mind, Stress, Emotional, Anger, Philosophy, Divorce, Psychology, Addiction, Happiness, Happy, Development, Thinking, Success, Education, Frustration, Sadness, Manipulation, Resistance, Brain, Depression, Overwhelm, Mental

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🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How you cope with challenges affects... well... your whole life really! It can be helpful to know what your coping mechanisms are and where you learned them so that perhaps you can examine them and choose different responses in the future. If it were only that easy.

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0:00.0	These are my personal opinions always secret professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.
0:10.7	I've got a great question from the Facebook group. It's called the Overwhelmed Brain Empowerment Group.
0:17.7	Probably the longest group name you'll find.
0:21.8	I just thought of it.
0:23.0	Now, it's just very long.
0:24.6	It could probably change that.
0:26.2	But that's what it is for now.
0:28.6	If you want to join that, it is on Facebook.
0:31.3	You can find it just by looking up the overwhelmed brain.
0:31.9	You'll see it.
0:36.2	But the person asked the question, they said, I'm new to this.
0:38.2	And they didn't say what they were new to,
0:43.3	but what are the examples of coping mechanisms that would be used in childhood?
0:45.8	So I've talked about coping mechanisms.
0:50.7	I've talked about survival skills that we develop in childhood, which is basically where coping mechanisms come from.
0:53.8	And I'm going to tell you from personal experience,
0:56.5	because I've done a lot of these coping mechanisms. I've also worked with a lot of people
1:01.5	on their coping mechanisms in my healed being program. That's the program where people doing
1:07.3	emotionally abusive or controlling or manipulative behavior, that's where I help them.
1:12.3	Stop doing those behaviors.
1:13.5	Show up as the best version of themselves they can be for themselves and in relationships.
1:19.2	If you are in a relationship with somebody who is controlling or manipulative or in any way as abusing your emotional state where you feel bad
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