Chris and coping

PROTIP: While this article examines the coping mechanisms Chris has used over the course of his association with the Internet, it should not be taken as any form of diagnosis, and is based on amateur analysis.

Coping is the act of minimizing the impact of stress and problems in life. In order to intentionally avoid any and all unpleasant realities Chris takes coping to unhealthy levels. People cope using multiple different ways that help reduce stress and increase performance whereas Chris uses coping mechanisms such as escapism and nostalgia which are known to be maladaptive and gets absolutely nothing done. Chris can easily be considered the king of escapism, as he does anything he can to avoid the harsh realities of his life.

Chris's rise to utter insanity, and his refusal to accept things as they are, has been popping up now and then throughout Christory, though it wouldn't fully come to light until April 15, 2020, where he no longer even considers himself "Christian", but instead believes to have swapped bodies with his creations. He started calling himself "Sonichu inside of Christine's body"

Overview

Most people cope with stress by meditating, talking with friends, sleeping and playing video games. Chris follows many of these but has also developed some maladaptive coping mechanisms such as escapism and nostalgia. These tools in moderation could relieve stress but Chris takes these to very unhealthy levels. Coping is used to only temporarily relieve stress, so a person can gather themselves and go finish the stressful task. But Chris uses coping mechanisms for months on end and gets nothing done.

For someone who has effectively done nothing, Chris leads a very stressful life, and takes escapism very seriously. The most notable example of escapism includes CWCville, a fictional city from the comics that Chris believes to be real along with his imaginary friends… and no, that is not during some scenario-based roleplaying: Chris truly believes without any question that CWCville and his characters are real (in both C-197 and 1218).

Chris also shows signs of avoidance behaviours (the act of avoiding stressful situations or feelings), he claims his fictional concept of Dimensional Merge will fix all his problems and pay all his loans once it is complete.

Chris has also pushed nostalgia as far as possible: decades after leaving high school, his mind is still fixated on the positive events that occurred at the time. Recently, Chris bought a high school desk, probably to help relive those good gal-pal filled days.

Chris 'dusting himself off'

In the years and months prior to September 2011, Chris displayed some degree of being able to move on and away from traumatic events in his life (the Medallion incident being a prominent example of this) - he'd simply try to throw the events in question to one side before becoming engrossed in whichever new Sweetheart or Troll crossed his field of vision. Following the death of his father, Chris has seemingly lost this coping mechanism - after a protracted period of grieving, Chris instead began introducing the maladaptive coping methods (excluding Flouncing, described below) that gradually evolved into their current state over the ensuing 8-9 years, among which are Escapism (Astral projection, the Dimensional Merge), Rationalisation ("I can't go to BABScon because of COVID-19, but that must be because COVID-19 is a way of ensuring the merge!"), Dissociation and Safety behaviors (Spirit possession), and Sensitization (i.e. flipping out over blocks on Twitter, resulting in the Soft Exile period).

Nostalgia

Main article: Chris and nostalgia

Flouncing

“	Damn trolls. Your bullying is not appreciated, even locally. So you can just take your bullyings, and bully yourselves. If you want to do- if you want- if you're bored, go work around the house. Go take a walk. 'Cause you don't need the internet. You don't need to stay cooped up inside, you just need to go outside, and enjoy life, and the sun, and the days you have to live.	”
Chris, suggesting alternatives to the Internet that in reality he refused to do, YouTube Finale

The first of Chris's maladaptive coping mechanisms, Chris's habit of flouncing, or ragequitting the internet, is something Chris has attempted several times. This behaviour bears the most resemblance to the maladaptive coping strategy of Avoidance, but Chris's flouncing behaviour bears several differences. In these cases, Chris only intended to make the internet think he had quit, and hoped that by avoiding the internet and lying low, the Trolls and Christorians associated with him would disappear. However, trolls would quickly manipulate Chris back online by using an undercover troll posing as his real life friends to convince him that another sweetheart had been thoroughly vetted as legitimate, and the sweetheart would in turn convince Chris to make more videos. In the case of the first instance of Chris flouncing, he returned after a mere 36 hours to ramble about a Family Guy spinoff.

Roleplaying

Main article: Spirit possession

Chris has a history of roleplaying. He roleplayed infront of Mary Lee Walsh as Sonichu and read out a speech that Sonichu had written for her. In a phonesex conversation, Chris roleplayed as Sonichu, this for sexual pleasure. In recent times he roleplays to escape reality. His first recorded roleplay was of Magi-chan on 15 august 2019, he stopped it a month later and declared that Chris has come back to 1218. He also uses his sock puppet account MagiChan111448 for roleplaying as Magi-chan, how Magi-chan types without a body is something only Emmanuelle would know. He started to role play as Sonichu from 15 April 2020 (though he claimed to be possessed since 31 March 2020) as a coping mechanism for the cancellation of BABScon. On 19 April 2020 Chris appeared on a livestream where he asked the host to refer to him as "Sonichu in Chris's body".

Sonichu stealing mama's discord account

Roleplaying as Possessed by Magi-chan

When roleplaying, Chris refers to himself in third person, in videos he (tries to) change his voice and vocabulary. When roleplaying as Sonichu he calls himself “Mama” and when roleplaying as Magi-chan he calls himself Christine. He sometimes changes the profile picture and display name of his social media to match the OC he is "possessed" by. He also changes his signature to match the OC's name.
This behaviour was not seen from Chris till the Idea guys and Teen troon squad roleplayed as characters from CWCville to influence Chris into their will. After they were brought down, Chris retained the idea of roleplaying by saying his OCs are manifesting in dimension 1218 (the real world) through his body to help in preparation for the dimensional merge or so Chris can attend an event in C-197 which has been cancelled or delayed in real life.
When roleplaying, Chris thinks people actually believe he is possesed by his OCs. He says things that would sound incredibly weird if it came from "Chris's" mouth, for example he called Barb a guilty pleasure waifu while roleplaying as Magi-chan. He might say this to prove he is no longer Chris as Chris would never say something like this... right?. He might also be saying things that he always wanted to say but would sound very wrong, if anything goes wrong he may think he can pin the blame on his imaginary character and get away scot free

List of Roleplays

Roleplayed as	From/On	To	Reason
Sonichu	?? ?? 2004	None	To give a speech TO THE EXTREME
Sonichu	13 February 2009	None	Sexy time with a 13 year old boy 19 year old girl
Magi-chan	14 August 2019	14 September 2019	None
Sonichu	15 April 2020	Ongoing	To attend BABScon in C-197
Mewtwo	14 May 2020	None	White knighting himself on twitter

Power Fantasies

A power fantasy is a form of wish fulfillment that involves someone who feels powerless making themselves seem more significant. A popular example of this kind of behavior is when an author makes themselves a major component of their story, and gives themselves unlimited power over an unfavorable situation or predicament they’d encounter. Characters that fit this description are often referred to as “Mary Sues” or “Marty Stus”.

Possibly one of the best examples of this is Chris coping with stressful situations through escapism by replicating them in his Sonichu comics. Chris’s comics have served as an outlet to form a narrative centered around a stressful event, instead making everything work out as he would have wanted. Often times the people who gave him a hard time would be depicted as villains, while Chris or his lackeys would prove to be powerful enough to defeat them with ease.

Chris originally centered these comics around his lovechild, Sonichu, where they would showcase his many misadventures, and overcome various bad guys. However even this wouldn’t stop Chris from making the comics go full power fantasy at as early as the very first issue. From Issue 2 and onwards, Chris would then turn his comics into a power fantasy series, where he would be in direct control over all of the people who wronged him, and get all of the things he wants.

This type of behavior from Chris isn’t strictly limited to his comics.

New Age methods

Main article: Meditation

Chris has also been utilizing several New Age concepts and beliefs in order to avoid reality.

History of Chris's escapism

This habit became especially prevalent in the years following the September 2011 death of his father, after which Chris found himself thrust into the world of adult responsibilities as he had to do tasks such as pay his bills and help take care of his mother and pets. Chris was 29 years old when his father passed away; while most people would be accustomed to dealing with responsibilities by that age, Chris was unprepared for the burden since his parents had sheltered him up to that point for example, until he died, his father had managed Chris's bank account due to his fiscal irresponsibility.

“	When my father was alive, I had more freedom; now that he has passed, I lost a lot of freedom and remain to take after the tasks he had left behind. [...] You can only escape in your mental depths and recluse for so long before you are pulled back to reality, and too many things leave you feeling like you get little peace at home.	”
Chris.

Chris occasionally whined on social media about his position in having to help take care of his mother and pets — his statements gradually revealing more of his retreat into escapist fantasies.

In September 2012, he complained:

Everybody else gets to go out for a fun and good time; I am stuck care-giving my mother and our dogs, and it is Very Stressful on me.

In January 2013, Chris was hoping for a sweetheart to rescue him from his life:

I need my Sweetheart-to-be to make me happy; my heart hurts literally from my depression and loneliness. Serving my mother is not a final purpose to me, and my social life is very slim. I feel like I lack direction in my life as well.

By October 2017, Chris was immersed in his escapism; from his list of reasons for refusing to get a job, half involved his devotion to his fantasies:

I Have a TON and S***-Load of Responsibilities and Worries here at home care-taking my mother, dogs, cats, and to my own passion of my Electric-Hedgehog Pokemon Family, my City of Cwcville, my own Only-Me Psychic Connection to my family and friends there, in that dimension. So, I'll be darned if I Do Not already have enough on my plate

Chris's desire to be rescued from reality left him desperate for his fantasies to be validated, his mentality similar to people willing to join cults. On 25 October 2017, the first of the Idea Guys entered the picture.

See Also

• Autism
• Chris and Reality