Coping Mechanisms

A Monster Energy drink sits beside me as I type this post. My Playstation 4 is playing a youtube video of a BBC panel show in the background. Coping mechanisms. Coping mechanisms all: drugs and distractions, sex and drugs and rock and roll, whatever gets us through the day. Caffeine and anti anxiety medication are my personal vices. And of course this brings us to medication, especially psychiatric medication.

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– J. Krishnamurti

We fake our well-adjustment with medication and denial, denial powered by video games and movies and music and sex and whatever else we can think of doing.

I’ve spoken previously this week about the importance of process. How awful is the process that most of us accept, if our rate of mental illness is what it is? How poorly designed is the process of our daily life if alcohol and marijuana and morphine and such are how we manage our modern lives? And we accept this as normal. We accept this as inevitable, despite it patently not being. And we argue there is no other option, despite other options being littered through out human history.

I’m rambling again. You’ll get used to that. But think on this, how toxic is your current situation if you are turning to as many coping mechanisms as you are now? What is wrong with your process, and how can you change the process? Just a thought.