Perhaps they've tried and failed, and so this is a coping mechanism to say, well, there's no point.

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Price said Hendricks developed several personalities as a coping mechanism during the abuse.

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Many oppressed groups began using humor as a coping mechanism, and I know this to be true for women.

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W. researchers, the instinct to fight back against the enemy constituted the most important coping mechanism for the prisoners they studied.

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In order to keep a random act of violence from being possible, the coping mechanism is most often to place blame.

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One possible coping mechanism, suggest Hellmann: Delay your answer for several hours.

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It also serves as a coping mechanism in the face of incomprehension.

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Deference, the coping mechanism now spurned in Britain, lives on in a surprising number of places, happily co-existing with a generalised contempt for politicians.

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This had become a form of "coping mechanism", she said.

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"It's a great way to introduce people into something that then later becomes ... sort of their coping mechanism, as opposed to picking up a drink or a drug, " Strode said.

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One current coping mechanism is solar power.

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Denial is the best coping mechanism.

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