The idea of self sabotage as a trendy topic in the mental health world is age-old. I have always had a subtle aversion to it mainly because the definition of it seems to undermine almost everything else we know about human protective factors. Even if coping skills are no longer serving us, at one point they did- often helping us physically or emotionally survive; so why talk about survival tactics or coping skills under the guise that there is something inherently wrong with us?