maladaptive
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By clinical standards, polarization shares many markers with recognized disorders: social isolation, chronic stress, heightened anxiety and maladaptive coping.
Unfortunately, this might be a maladaptive coping mechanism and can compound the problem.
From Salon
With chronic loneliness, that stress response gets stuck and becomes disadvantageous — similar to the way in which anxiety can shift a helpful fear response to a maladaptive mental illness.
From Seattle Times
Indeed, stepdads went on to have as many chicks as did the killers over the birds’ lifetimes—upending the established idea that adoption is maladaptive and hinders a stepparent’s reproductive success.
From Science Magazine
When the right ventricle is forced to pump blood to the whole body, it develops several maladaptive traits, including overly large muscle and scarring.
From Science Daily
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