COPING MECHANISM

Coping means to invest one’s conscious effort, to solve personal and interpersonal problems, in order to master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict.

The above line may sound deep and psychological but in simple words, coping means adaptability and coming up with strategies to reduce stress. In our daily lives, we have to cope-up with a variety of situations around us to make ourselves feel more comfortable.

Coping mechanism is basically making up our mind and developing strategies and ideas to face the stressful situations in our life.

IN today’s world, we all go through some serious issues in our life that can be emotional, physical or practical. In order to fight these problems in life, we do need some kind of support and meaningful strategies to deal with them and keep ourselves motivated during the hard times. We all face emotional breakdowns and psychological issues in our life.

This is the reason that coping mechanisms are broadly there to support us and help us to move out from the stressful and negative situations. Emotional based mechanisms help us fight with our own minds to come out of it. In the Covid times a major world population is confined in the four wall of their home doing their regular chores without much physical interaction with the external world.

These situations do have a psychological impact on us and tend to leave us feeling lonely. It is therefore imperative to move out from these areas of negativity as soon as possible. Let’s discuss some of the mechanisms which can help us do so.

Emotional Support- During the hard and stressful times, we need complete support from our close ones in order to comfort us. We are bound to feel lonely and depressed if we self-isolate ourselves. Thus the support from parents and loved ones proves to be a great help.

Relaxation- Relaxing our mind and body can help us cope with stress. There are many ways of relaxing ourselves such as music, dance, art, poetry and in an advance way, meditation and yoga really helps in keeping us calm and relaxing our mind.

Engage in problem solving- If we have a pro-active mind set, we can steer through the problems with our own problem solving nature without being much stressed. Problem solving can be done in many ways such as by accepting our responsibilities, lowering our aspirations, if needed, searching for solutions in our day to day life to counter the problems coming towards us. We can thus conclude that Adaptability helps us move forward when we have problems. We also need to remember that we have to be our own problem solvers. People in today’s world are definitely moving through emotional changes and therefore It becomes important for us to spread positivity, stay motivated and provide support to our loved ones if we can, in the tough phases of life. REMEMBER

“Every human being goes through tumultuous periods in life and it is important for all of us to find our own ways to fight them.” 

 

~JAYDEEP SAHOO

~MODERN ERA CONVENT