This helps keep us alive. This part of the brain is an automatic response. You do not think before you act.
Reptilian Coping Brain also helps us adjust to changes and challenges that we face.
This is the number one job of our brain.
This part of the brain triggers our emotions or how we are feeling.
Two people can have the same situation, but have different feelings.
The Emotional Coping works hard to understand what we are sensing or experiencing.
It is also responsible for instinct survival.
Fathers physically protect children, while mothers focus on nurturing
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This enables us to figure out the meaning of our experiences.
This is responsible for coordinating all coping brain responses.
This function has the ability to group things by using words.
Also known as our problem solving brain.
This is the largest of the coping brains.
Links us to think things through and review the situation.
This part is responsible for the ability to reason or judge.
When we cope with an injury or dangerous situation the Reptilian Coping Brain is first. This is because survival may be at stake.
The last part is the Thinking Coping Brain. It takes longer to respond. It has to figure out what is the best way to deal with the situation.
When the thinking brain lets the other brains take control, this is what we call “out of control.”
Then the Emotional Coping such as crying, sense a problem, or pain.
Thinking Coping has the ability to let us learn and gain knowledge from experiences.
Questioning, figuring out, and problem solving brain
Ability to reason,learn,and gain knowledge
Function and develop new coping strategies
Understand words and use symbols
Beliefs and behavior
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You have to express emotions.
Friends: you lose friends and gain. Coping with the loss of a friend is difficult. Gaining friends is much easier.
Parents: they are our safe house. We trust and confide in them
Parents keep us safe when we are helpless
Family members: siblings and close family help us to stay safe and we trust them when parents are not around.
Friends: useful in new situations.
Teachers and staff: when in school teachers and others faculty can be ones we trust in to help us. These are times when parents are not around. We spend most of our day with the school help.
Entertainment media: useful to cope with stressful situations. This can relax us and take our minds off of problems.
We all face common misconceptions at one point in our lives.
The “I Don't Care” conception is not realizing that the
Reptilian brain takes over when we are in distress or hurting.
If we are not careful to practice good coping skills, the instinct of the brain can become habit forming.
If we are unable to control sadness or anger issues, we can suffer for long periods of time.
We are all aware that we cannot always control our thinking. This can lead to someone being hurt, or you harming