If you, or someone you know has 'coped well' with a serious emotional trauma in life, was it because..?

The answers are going to vary accordingly to ones culture. for example a higher percentage of American soldiers suffer from PTSD than British soldiers, the reason for this is that even between the US and UK there is a significant difference in thinking styles. It is not simply a case of "bottling things up" and "stiff upper lip" its the modes of thinking that lies at the core of coping with trauma.