A coping mechanism is a habit a person uses to get through stress. A healthy coping mechanism.
Some help and some cost more than the stress did, which is the whole distinction that matters. A coping mechanism that worked in a crisis often outlives the crisis and becomes the problem.
1nouncoping mechanismA habit a person uses to get through stress.
“Running was his coping mechanism through the whole of that year.”
coping mechanism is a habit.
Practised in Mental Health & Wellbeing