The behaviors found in a vicious cycle can actually prolong a crisis. Create temporary dependencies. During a crisis, it is often helpful to form brief relationships with others in order to gain support. Crisis counseling and intervention are very helpful and necessary. A healthy dependency is usually temporary and will always lead to increasing independency.
Unhealthy dependencies are long term and create increasing dependency rather than independency.
Facing fear and emotional pain. A crisis is a time of fear or sadness. How we respond is important. When we face the darkness in our life, and we are not destroyed by our fears, or sadness, we eventually discover there are no monsters. We discover that we can survive.