Running 30 minute intervals is great for dealing with a variety of negative emotions. Plus you can lose weight, sleep better, have a more attractive face, manage stress better, have better orgasms, get more smiles from the opposite sex, all from f***ing RUNNING!

Bad memory. It’s built-in and non-optional.

I ride my bicycle. The cyclical nature of the movement is meditative, and I have the freedom to ride as long as it takes to get my headspace cleared up.

Mostly escapism.

I prefer stoicism, but it’s tough and I’m weak and lazy. So to the degree that I have to deal with the real world, I mostly rely on some combination of cynicism and fatalism.

But as much as possible, I escape.

Thinking about God’s judgement. 🤷

meditation

videogames where I have a greater degree of control than IRL

throwing myself into work

Long walks. Daily.
Writing & reading. A lot.
Sketching.
Spending time with my spouse.

But, for me at least, those are not coping mechanism (doesn’t matter what’s going on, nothing is definitive even when it’s all gloomy). They’re things I do because they make me feel (and think) better.

One thing I don’t do is reading about how doomed we are (or how our violence & cruelty will be the answer to already too much of their violence & cruelty), and be ‘we’ I mean all of us as individuals living in this time frame. Thx for your effort dear authors, but I have my own eyes and ears, and brain, and I don’t need anyone to point it out to me. I don’t need anyone to keep repeating me there is no hope either. Instead, I tend to focus on what good can come out of our situation, and how it could happen.

Lots of physical training and also escapism. I guess training is also a form of escapism in a way too.

Bad: eating

Good: walking

Whatever I can do to obliterate my mind and not think or think about something else. So… Also escapism, but on drugs.

I read political theory and tell myself I will act on it. Sometimes I even do but that is rare and usually I burn out or let it eat at other important parts of my life. I pet my cat a lot and I smoke weed but sometimes smoking makes things worse. I also study ancient history because its disconnected enough from modernity that I don’t have to think about my future too much and the patterns aren’t as relevant

educational entertainment. I have an ever growing library of lectures and essays that I keep stashed for when I need to lock in on a 12 hr task where I’m likely to get overstimulated. sprinkle in a stand up comedy special here or there just to keep me awake.