Donald Robertson

So there's a body of research in modern psychotherapy and psychology and in the field of coping and stress that we can analyze different coping strategies that people use to deal with stress, right? And these are the strategies that you find in self-help books and self-improvement books, right?

So there's a body of research in modern psychotherapy and psychology and in the field of coping and stress that we can analyze different coping strategies that people use to deal with stress, right? And these are the strategies that you find in self-help books and self-improvement books, right?

So there's a body of research in modern psychotherapy and psychology and in the field of coping and stress that we can analyze different coping strategies that people use to deal with stress, right? And these are the strategies that you find in self-help books and self-improvement books, right?

So maybe breathing exercises, relaxation technique, cognitive therapy, positive affirmations, positive visualization, even things like avoidance, just running away from the situation and

So maybe breathing exercises, relaxation technique, cognitive therapy, positive affirmations, positive visualization, even things like avoidance, just running away from the situation and

So maybe breathing exercises, relaxation technique, cognitive therapy, positive affirmations, positive visualization, even things like avoidance, just running away from the situation and

you know or accessing other social support getting someone else to help you in a situation or things like that there's like lots of different ways that you could potentially cope with anxiety depression stressful situations right but no one of those coping strategies works every time and the people that exhibit the most emotional resilience and are most able to recover from anxiety and depression are generally found to be the ones that have something we call coping flexibility

you know or accessing other social support getting someone else to help you in a situation or things like that there's like lots of different ways that you could potentially cope with anxiety depression stressful situations right but no one of those coping strategies works every time and the people that exhibit the most emotional resilience and are most able to recover from anxiety and depression are generally found to be the ones that have something we call coping flexibility

you know or accessing other social support getting someone else to help you in a situation or things like that there's like lots of different ways that you could potentially cope with anxiety depression stressful situations right but no one of those coping strategies works every time and the people that exhibit the most emotional resilience and are most able to recover from anxiety and depression are generally found to be the ones that have something we call coping flexibility

So they're able to choose intelligently between whether to confront a situation assertively or whether to back away from it and resign themselves to it with emotional acceptance.

So they're able to choose intelligently between whether to confront a situation assertively or whether to back away from it and resign themselves to it with emotional acceptance.

So they're able to choose intelligently between whether to confront a situation assertively or whether to back away from it and resign themselves to it with emotional acceptance.

A little bit like saying knowing when to pick your battles and things like that, you know, or knowing when it's better to distract yourself from pain or discomfort and when it would be better to address the cause or when it would be better to confront it and adapt to the experience and learn to accept it.

A little bit like saying knowing when to pick your battles and things like that, you know, or knowing when it's better to distract yourself from pain or discomfort and when it would be better to address the cause or when it would be better to confront it and adapt to the experience and learn to accept it.

A little bit like saying knowing when to pick your battles and things like that, you know, or knowing when it's better to distract yourself from pain or discomfort and when it would be better to address the cause or when it would be better to confront it and adapt to the experience and learn to accept it.

And by questioning, I mean, what we do in modern cognitive therapy, like often we'll find almost with every client, you'll find that they have coping strategies they've just made up themselves or coping strategies they've got from the internet or from self-help books.

And by questioning, I mean, what we do in modern cognitive therapy, like often we'll find almost with every client, you'll find that they have coping strategies they've just made up themselves or coping strategies they've got from the internet or from self-help books.

And by questioning, I mean, what we do in modern cognitive therapy, like often we'll find almost with every client, you'll find that they have coping strategies they've just made up themselves or coping strategies they've got from the internet or from self-help books.

In many cases, they'll be using these maladaptively in a way that's contributing to the problem and making it worse, usually because they're doing them too rigidly or they're using them as a kind of subtle form of avoidance that's actually contributing to the problem. And so one of the first things we might do is what's sometimes called a functional analysis.

In many cases, they'll be using these maladaptively in a way that's contributing to the problem and making it worse, usually because they're doing them too rigidly or they're using them as a kind of subtle form of avoidance that's actually contributing to the problem. And so one of the first things we might do is what's sometimes called a functional analysis.