Self-Medication and Avoidance Coping (original) (raw)

2018

Abstract

We examine coping strategies, and how they play into the recovery narrative according to the results of the survey, interviews and focus groups. We probe respondents’ reflections on the injustice that has shaped the development of their victim identity and their coping devices, including how it relates to their need for self-medication.Many victims develop individual and social defence strategies, or what we refer to as ‘shock absorption’ strategies, through what has been referred to as the ‘impact disorganisation phase’ (Frieze et al. in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 18:299–315, 1987). However, avoidance coping is understood to become ‘maladaptive’ and difficult to overcome (Wilson et al. in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 19:587–593, 2012). It is also commonly agreed that lifelong overuse of maladaptive or avoidance coping strategies results in ‘impaired adjustment to stress’ (Wilson et al. in Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 19:58...

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