COPING
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Language of Coping is a human-centred glossary that documents emotional states shaped by lived experience. It sits at the intersection of mental health awareness, storytelling, and digital culture. In Nigeria, where access to mental health care remains limited and stigma persists, people are forced to develop personal languages of survival. These languages are rarely documented and often misunderstood. This project creates a space where those internal experiences can be expressed, named, and held. It is both an archive of emotion and a community for recognition.
SOCIAL MEDIA & YOU
We live online and scroll through curated lives, rehearsed emotions, and performative empathy. In this space, connection is constant, but understanding is rare. Social media has become a source of emotional distortion. It amplifies comparison, anxiety, and disconnection. Yet, it also creates access — to language, to community, to shared experience. We do not reject the digital. We re-purpose it.