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Maladaptive coping strategies include denial for long time, addiction including workaholic, busyness including charity, chemicals including alcohol, tranquilizers, tobacco and fat/sugar/caffeine.
Unhealthy as they avoid acknowledging and fixing issues. As they become habitual, they add to the overall stress load only numbing or distracting but with harm in return.

Chronic hyper arousal even for perceived stress is flight or flight internalized not expanded, leading to chronic muscle pain in neck, shoulder or back. This affects bodies to create diseases such as high bp, chronic pain, Moodiness and addiction.

The latter half is about studies including chronic stress, author’s views on non doing over visualization with results in mind