Coping is the more sensible choice. [Said Chilton, aware that infusing his personal bias was not something a more orthodox psychiatrist might be inclined to do. But if Ruka was interested in someone tame and inefficient, she wouldn't have come to him, now would she have?] It is about adaptation -- that will be the reoccurring theme.

What is it that you do, already? To protect yourself. I don't want to regurgitate what you have already tried.