"Avoidance coping" refers to choosing your behavior based on trying to avoid or escape particular thoughts or feelings. It can involve "doing" (e.g., someone who excessively washes their hands to ...

Avoidance coping creates stress and anxiety, and ravages self-confidence. The first step to overcoming it is to recognize it while you're doing it.

Avoidance coping is common among people but it is the worst way to get through a difficult period. TheHealthSite.com People have different ways to cope with grief, anger or fear.

And it's actually pretty adaptive, it's healthy coping short term. But the issue is, ... “Avoidance is normal. I want to normalize that it's not always like a pathological thing.

“Avoidance coping” is a maladaptive (unhealthy) way of avoiding stress rather than directly managing it. Stressors, such as household clutter, personal conflict, work demands, etc., can ...

A new study has found that military veterans who have started or gone back to school have a more difficult time when they use avoidance coping strategies (denying or minimizing negative thoughts ...

I was about 14 when my dad got his cancer diagnosis. Almost 20 years of avoidance changes you as a person. “I think there are a lot of people out here walking around traumatized and they don't ...