Define crisis. How does it differ from person to person?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

?Crisis has been defined as “a perception of an event or situation as an intolerable difficulty that exceeds the person’s resources and coping mechanisms”.
?The key to thinking about crisis is to focus on the idea of “perception”; one person’s crisis is another person’s routine. Each of us, with our own resources and coping mechanisms, responds differently to the events of the world around us, having varying degrees of stress and capacity for response.
?Sometimes the crisis is the result of a major disaster, such as a flood or a terrorist attack. Sometimes the crisis is the result of one individual’s horrific experience, such as being raped or brutally assaulted.
?These situational crises touch many lives, yet they provoke different responses from different individuals. Each of us has a tolerance threshold beyond which we begin to lose our ability to successfully cope. All of us face maturational or developmental issues throughout our lives, but for some individuals those issues precipitate crises. Hence the midlife crisis or the crises of adolescence and early adulthood.
?While helping someone negotiate a way through this difficult, charged time, bear in mind that there is tremendous potential for change or growth as well. Even in the worst of situations, as with the death of a loved one, the challenge is to find within the disaster the possibility for transformation and growth. If a person can be helped to survive and work through the immediate nature of the crisis situation, this opportunity to find new meaning looms large.