Psychology: Coping Mechanisms of Reality (#45)
The ability to cope with reality is what determines their personality because of the experience that coping mechanism produces. These mechanisms are the mechanisms that stay in place, and become their personality's coping mechanisms (probably starting from birth). This 'defense mechanism' stays in place until that person learns to become an individual, and learns to use both mechanisms depending on the situation. People either becomes someone who learns to integrate themselves with "reality" and thus are not intent on changing anything or having genuine "realities", or they become someone who changes "reality" and has an intent on doing something unique and genuine from there own thoughts.
Generally, starting from late elementary (grades 3-5) and onward, most kids become challenged in their thinking process from social situations, and during the road to becoming a content self-actualized individual, we face many challenges, and many of those challenges are unwanted challenges. These unwanted challenges produce thoughts about learning to "cope" with the situations (Almost always these situations are social).
People cope either by enduring the situations and becoming apart of it. These people will act like their friends or acquantainces, or from what they're supposed to do from experience generated by their culture.This type of coping should be considered eduring coping; where one makes his or her behavior a copy of the situations rather than trying to find some way to change it. These type of people accept many things, no matter how good or bad they are, and say theres nothing they can do about it so they should just accept it. This type of coping mechanism is the most common because it requires less freethought and less responsibility. These type of people just "act like everyone else" at a party or change for example. These people change their attitudes, behaviors, and values based on the social norms of a culture or goup rather than challenging, changing, or creating their own.
In my own opinion they have an abundance of will to the construct belonging (according to maslows hierarchy), and this will seems to dominate any form of their logic proccesses.
The other type of person is more uncommon. This type of coping mechanism changes the "reality" around an individual, they bend "reality" to their will. These type of people change situations and often are the leaders of the situation. This type of coping is harder because it requires more courage to stand up for wha you really think and try and change the situation. This type requires more thinking, more action, and definitely more responsibility because it leads to new "unforseen" consequences and results. This type of coping would be considered changable coping.
An example of changable coping would be: Instead of drinking because its "fun", according to everyone else around you (and the culture that emphasizes it), this individual goes out and creates his own form of fun. This individual does something for the individuals own genuine thoughts, rather than "becoming like the rest of the masses".
Its possible, in my opinion, that Schizophrenia is a result partly of the changable coping mechansim. It is partly because the individuals will is split between satisfying the cultural norms, values, and laws, and following its own desires and biology. The culture represses this individuals thoughts or desires. It represses this person from trying to change things to the way this person 'wants them to be' (and it could be a negative thing too, like murder). So this schizophrenic person then has imaginary thoughts that appeal to them and "help guide" them along in changing their reality, without ever having to honestly admit that they have wronged against their social contracts and laws. Apparently self-deception truly is the most powerful form of mind control. (Think Donnie Darko for this last paragraph.)
Generally, starting from late elementary (grades 3-5) and onward, most kids become challenged in their thinking process from social situations, and during the road to becoming a content self-actualized individual, we face many challenges, and many of those challenges are unwanted challenges. These unwanted challenges produce thoughts about learning to "cope" with the situations (Almost always these situations are social).
People cope either by enduring the situations and becoming apart of it. These people will act like their friends or acquantainces, or from what they're supposed to do from experience generated by their culture.This type of coping should be considered eduring coping; where one makes his or her behavior a copy of the situations rather than trying to find some way to change it. These type of people accept many things, no matter how good or bad they are, and say theres nothing they can do about it so they should just accept it. This type of coping mechanism is the most common because it requires less freethought and less responsibility. These type of people just "act like everyone else" at a party or change for example. These people change their attitudes, behaviors, and values based on the social norms of a culture or goup rather than challenging, changing, or creating their own.
In my own opinion they have an abundance of will to the construct belonging (according to maslows hierarchy), and this will seems to dominate any form of their logic proccesses.
The other type of person is more uncommon. This type of coping mechanism changes the "reality" around an individual, they bend "reality" to their will. These type of people change situations and often are the leaders of the situation. This type of coping is harder because it requires more courage to stand up for wha you really think and try and change the situation. This type requires more thinking, more action, and definitely more responsibility because it leads to new "unforseen" consequences and results. This type of coping would be considered changable coping.
An example of changable coping would be: Instead of drinking because its "fun", according to everyone else around you (and the culture that emphasizes it), this individual goes out and creates his own form of fun. This individual does something for the individuals own genuine thoughts, rather than "becoming like the rest of the masses".
Its possible, in my opinion, that Schizophrenia is a result partly of the changable coping mechansim. It is partly because the individuals will is split between satisfying the cultural norms, values, and laws, and following its own desires and biology. The culture represses this individuals thoughts or desires. It represses this person from trying to change things to the way this person 'wants them to be' (and it could be a negative thing too, like murder). So this schizophrenic person then has imaginary thoughts that appeal to them and "help guide" them along in changing their reality, without ever having to honestly admit that they have wronged against their social contracts and laws. Apparently self-deception truly is the most powerful form of mind control. (Think Donnie Darko for this last paragraph.)
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