mine is humour…if you had not noticed…lol
take care
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withdrawal…deep and far…
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Perhaps I would say both hope and humor
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Faith is my number one coping mechanism.
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Yeah, this was true to me. Plus the love of family.
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Headphones for voices. Eyes closed prayers for Visuals. Extra Seroquel in 100mg doses if able to escape the episode. Alcohol if extremely desperate. Reflection on previous to prepare for the future ones.
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Escapism. - - -
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Distractions. —
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Humor and large bodies of water.
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Intellectualization and sublimation. Me getting a degree in psychology and lifting weights and having casual sex works remarkably well. Just ask my doctors, they encourage the academics and one of them encourages sex. My lifting routines are pretty nuts to be honest, they don’t recommend such heavy weightlifting. Well one of them doesn’t, the other was like whatever works. I tend to avoid alcohol and just drink socially from time to time. Oh and I’m listening to slipknot right now. Today was leg day and I jerked off afterwards. I have no shame, I preach my methods to madness. They work.
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Awareness of the nature of my illness.
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i was going to say music (that was my first thought) but humour is probably a close second,
it is easier to listen to music and buy music than it is to tell a joke i think but i love trying to make people laugh, i even laugh at myself sometimes haha
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I use a lot to cope. Some good some bad. I’ve been trying to do grounding techniques. I use gratitude, visualizations, and helping other people when I can. Recently I cut my arm because things got hard. I’m not really sure why I did it. I have to keep focusing on positive coping skills. 
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ignore it, try to live everyday and hope today is better than yesterday.
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Climb up to the top of a tree (in younger days), sit under a creek bridge, walk for hours going nowhere…and if none of those are available, go deep inside my mind, in to my own little world.
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I think prayer. Without God I will go crazy. After that - reading, coffee breaks and listening to music or recitals of Quran.
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Avoidance. Sometimes it costs me. Sometimes it serves me well.
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wow, that just described me when i was kid and teenager.
take care
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Withdraw into a book. I’ve been doing that a bit too much lately.
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I’d have to say my tendency to make light of things. It isn’t something I force or even think about. I just do it.
Coping would imply that I’m trying to get away from something, but the use of humor and wit is different. It is like pulling the terror close, looking at it, and twisting it into something else.
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