Negative Coping Skills

negative coping skills

negative thoughts and behaviours

" data-orig-size="300,300" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" data-image-title="negative thoughts and behaviours" data-orig-file="https://mylifewithanorexia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/60701349.jpg?w=500" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-medium-file="https://mylifewithanorexia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/60701349.jpg?w=500?w=300" data-permalink="https://mylifewithanorexia.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/negative-coping-skills/attachment/60701349/" alt="negative thoughts and behaviours" srcset="https://mylifewithanorexia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/60701349.jpg 300w, https://mylifewithanorexia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/60701349.jpg?w=150 150w" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3043" data-large-file="https://mylifewithanorexia.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/60701349.jpg?w=500?w=300" />Often we post lots of information about ‘positive’ signs and skills. After all part of recovery is learning to focus on the positive. But what about the negative, how do you recognize negative coping skills. How do you know that the behaviours you are doing are actually harming you or not promoting recovery. We live inside our heads so much that often negative process are so natural as breathing we think this is normal. Continuing negative behaviours can act as triggers for relapse or harming ourselves even more.

As part of a bigger post, I found a great list of negative behaviours and recognising them as such. Put together by Blake Flannery it is an excellent starting point. You can add your own unique negative behaviours to the list. The full article by Blake ‘List of Coping Skills for Anger, Anxiety and Depression’, also gives a lot of positive skills and how they actually help us by adopting them.

Being aware is the starting point for changing any behavior.