Crying like a baby is probably my least healthy coping skill (but hey, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do). I find that the more familiar I become with reality, the better I am able to cope with it. Like in any relationship! So... studying.

The easiest way to lower the difficulty level is to eliminate nonessential interaction wtih the drama-driven characters. Most of them are NPCs anyway.

My least healthy would be vegging in front of the tv for hours, effectively avoiding tackling my to-do list. My healthiest is, of course, spending hours on Agnostic.com sounding out ideas here and digesting valuable wisdom from all of you here!
(How's that for totally sucking up?)

Healthly: motorcycle therapy, nature therapy, music therapy, supportive friends

Unhealthly: too much alone time, alcohol, no friends around/available

Healthiest... Just deal with it the best I can.

Least healthy... Anger, indifference, realize I need to deal with it the best I can.

Many years ago I picked up a book called The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck, and the opening paragraph has never left me.

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”

A bit Buddhist I know, but that was the Buddha’s calling, to understand the sufferings of life.

I know of only one way, but it makes it worse for everybody else.

The game called life? I've been trying ot play it for decades and I still have not figured out the rules.
Keeping calm = healthy
Freaking out or over reacting = not healthy

Realizing that all you can do is play the hands you're dealt. Your level of success is what it is. You're still in there pitching.

That's all the platitudes and mixed metaphors I got.

Realizing that all you can do is play the hands you're dealt. Your level of success is what it is. You're still in there pitching.

Get knocked down 6 times get up 7.

Keep calm in any situation is a great bit of advice and question everything. panicing rarely helps anyone. just mindlessly conforming is just fucking stupid.

It's not a winnable game. Try to remind myself of that daily. Still hard to accept.

Food for me in either case..

I try not to let anything make me feel like it's the worst thing in the world.

I like to solve problems, so that would be the healthiest. I am impatient with other people at times, so that is least healthiest.

Keep telling the truth instead of yielding to religious lies

I haven't cried in years. Inside I cry like a baby but in the real world I know it does nothing and means nothing. What has happened to me is that I see my life from now and on backwards in great detail. I see my faults and the acts of others (parents included) as to why I have my faults. Since we all have faults I cannot "blame" anyone exactly for how my life has turned out. I see many truths but knowing this I can still see how a "re-do" of my life would probably be about the same. Perseverance is a key word here. The best we can do is try and try again. If we learn something from each relationship this is all we can do. It takes everyone that has b een in your life to make you who you really are.

Weed in either case.

Life is like the board game I used to play.

My healthy self faces the situation, and tries to find clarity before I react. The unhealthy me gets driven into my mind shadows, and prepares fantasy