for me, learning to cope was around anxiety. after a serious riding accident (horse), i’d get serious panic attacks when i got close enough to even smell the barn. and horses are phenomenal at detecting that when you’re on their back. it was a disaster. then the anxiety propagated to other situations (any time it felt like i had to be focused and ‘on’ - for lack of a better way to say it - clinical term: performance anxiety). spent a lot of years in therapy. learned how i was ‘built’ (how my mind worked). my personal coping mechanism? fix it - or forget it. i usually choose ‘fix’, but have gotten quite good at blowing shit off too (no patience for towing a sea anchor).
