Famous People Coping
This famous actor on Two and a Half men is known for his erratic behavior and use of cocaine.
Charlie Sheen
This culture has a ritual known as petit aperitif – “small appetizer” – when they get home from work.
French culture
Evidence suggests that this simple coping technique inhibits sympathetic activity and increases parasympathetic responses, which translates to experiencing less distressing and more positive emotions.
Deep breathing exercises
This 2001 smash hit about persevering launched Destiny’s Child into the limelight
Survivor
This pop star whose hit song “Paparazzi” blew up in 2008 credits “learning how to say no” as a key coping strategy that has helped her find balance in her life
Lady Gaga
In the Andes region the workers are known to chew on this energy providing leaf to help get them through their day
The coca leaf
This coping technique promotes neuroplasticity and increases oxygen supply to your brain while contributing to the cascading release of various neuro-chemicals including endorphins, endocannabinoids, and dopamine.
Exercise
This song about acceptance, sung by Paul McCartney, was one of the last hit Beatles singles on an album with the same name
Let It Be
This famous singer credits her absence from apps like Instagram, along with DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), with an improvement in her mental health.
Selena Gomez
The people of this former world power are known for indulging in hot saunas, which relaxes the muscles and the mind.
The people of Russia
This popular coping tool begins as a contraction in the rib cage. Neurologically, these contractions cause a change in the circulating endorphins which give way to a pain-killing sensation, lowered adrenaline levels, and over time can even lower the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in our bodies
Laughter
This Eminem and Nate Dogg song from the album The Eminem Show was recently ranked the most listened to Workout Song on Spotify
Til I Collapse
This famous singer of "Love Me Like You Do" uses kickboxing to cope with her panic attacks
Ellie Goulding
This eastern culture practices sesshin, a form of group meditation that takes place in temples or centers.
Japanese culture
Over time this practice dampens activity in the amygdala and increases the connections between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. Both of these parts of the brain help us to be less reactive to stressors and to recover better from stress when we experience it
Meditation
This song by Demi Lovato states that “if somebody tells me I’ll go back to my old ways, “I’m gonna say no way, I’m out of the doorway.”
Old Ways
This famous physicist stated “the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin”
Albert Einstein
In this country a doctor famously treated his depressed patient, who had recently become unable to work in the rice fields, with a cow and round the clock visitors.
Cambodia
This groundbreaking experiment in the 1970s disproved previous experiments in which given the opportunity rats would consume opiates and cocaine at the expense of all other stimuli until they died.
Rat Park
This 13 minute song by Pink Floyd, off the album Wish You Were Here, is about a former bandmate who was struggling to cope with his mental illness
Shine on you Crazy Diamond
Why did the skeleton not go to the party?
Because he had no body to go with