survival strategies
Ways to endure
Survival strategies are methods or approaches used to endure difficult circumstances—whether physical danger, economic hardship, or emotional crisis.
The term appears in contexts ranging from wilderness preparedness to evolutionary biology to personal coping: Her survival strategies included rationing food and traveling at night.
In psychology and self-help, survival strategies often refers to adaptive behaviors developed in response to trauma or dysfunction: The emotional walls she built were survival strategies from childhood.
- camouflageConcealment through visual blending
- fire-makingStarting a controlled blaze
- shelter buildingMaking protective structures
- mimicryAdaptive resemblance to another
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
resilience · hibernation · migration · caching · disaster planning · thermoregulation · symbiosis · foraging · cunning · dormancy · defensive tactics · safety in numbers · herd mentality · resource allocation · problem-solving · natural selection · navigation · water purification
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- faminestarvation, mass starvation, hunger, famine victims, crop failure
survival strategiesdeath wish
Urge toward self-destruction
self-destruction · self-annihilation · suicide · terminal decline · suicidal behavior
survival strategiesresignation
Voluntary relinquishment of position
surrender · giving up · fatalism · capitulation · learned helplessness
survival strategiesself-destructive behavior
self-sabotage · self-harm · reckless endangerment · suicidal ideation