Coping strategy

To my understanding, a coping strategy is the way of an individual to handle hardships and worry during a longer time. The relative develop adaptation-strategies to cope and survive during the negative consequences of the addiction. In that way the relative gets a role in relation to the addict that in the long run can get destructive for both parties, even though the problem isn't caused by the relative. It becomes interplay between both parties.

Through therapy and psychological help you can learn new, more constructive, coping strategies to help handle life's hardships and traumas.