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Why coping strategies disappear when you need them most

My therapist says I need to develop coping skills but when I'm in an episode I can't remember that coping skills exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Crisis states impair access to the very cognitive resources needed to implement helpful interventions.

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