Negative Coping Skills

Negative Coping Skills
Here's a list of coping strategies that will cost you in the long run. These do more harm than good in most cases and can make life more stressful.

Diversions

Procrastination
Abusing drugs or alcohol
Wasting time on unimportant tasks
Interpersonal (With Others)

Blaming
Isolating/withdrawing
Mean or hostile joking
Gossiping
Criticizing others
Manipulating others
Refusing help from others
Lying to others
Sabotaging plans
Being late to appointments
Provoking violence from others
Enabling others to take advantage of you
Cognitive (of the Mind)

Denying any problem
Stubbornness/inflexibility
All or nothing/black or white thinking
Catastrophizing
Overgeneralizing
Tension Releasers

Tantrums
Throwing things at people
Hitting people
Yelling at others
Destroying property
Speeding or driving recklessly
Physical

Suicide
Self harm
Developing illnesses
Intrapersonal

Making fun of yourself
Self-sabotaging behaviors
Blaming yourself
Indulging

Spending too much
Gambling
Eating too much
Setting dangerous fires
Continually crying