I listen to music, read about revolutionary movements, daydream about alternate timelines where the world is a utopia, play video games where I feel like I have power, and in control of stuff (like, for example, idk… fighting monsters and other evil things in open world games), sometimes write poetry (but I never share any of them lol, they just stay in Standard Notes).
Basically: escapism.
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.