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Escape is closely related to avoidance. This technique is often
demonstrated by people who experience panic attacks or have phobias.
These people want to flee the situation at the first sign of anxiety.
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emotional or instrumental support
self-distraction
denial
substance use
self-blame
behavioral disengagement
religion
indulgence in drugs or alcohol.

Religious coping has been found to be the most common coping
response, with one study reporting that 17% use religion as a coping
response. Women mentioned religious coping more frequently than did
men.
Many people think that meditation "not only calms our emotions,
but...makes us feel more 'together'", as too can "the kind of prayer in
which you're trying to achieve an inner quietness and peace".
Low-effort syndrome or low-effort coping refers to the coping
responses of minority groups in an attempt to fit into the dominant
culture. For example, minority students at school may learn to put in
only minimal effort as they believe they are being discriminated against
by the dominant culture.
Historical psychoanalytic theories
Otto Fenichel
Otto Fenichel summarized early psychoanalytic studies of coping
mechanisms in children as "a gradual substitution of actions for mere
discharge reactions...[&] the development of the function of judgement"

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