Tuesday, June 21, 2005

what's your coping mechanism?

here are commonly used defense mechanism:

  • repression
    • an unconscious forgetting or storing of painful experiences
  • suppression
    • the conscious forgetting
  • rationalization
    • giving a logical or justifiable reason of a socially unacceptable behavior
  • undoing
    • make up for a previously done unacceptable behavior by doing something acceptable
  • displacement
    • transferring strong feeling from the original sourse to an object that is less threatening
  • denial
    • not accepting reality or facts
  • projection
    • attributing one's own unacceptable desires or feelings to another. or simply, blaming others
  • sublimation
    • redirecting socially or sexually unacceptable behavior to something socially acceptable
  • reaction formation
    • showing the opposite feeling or behavior of one's true emotion
  • compensation
    • making up for one's shortccoming or defects by doing good in another field.
so, what's your favorite defense mechanism?? :-)
there are a lot more but these are some of my favorite defense mechanisms that i've used! hahahahahaha

2 Comments:

Blogger NJ Lawyer said...

projection and rationalization...

1:34 AM  
Blogger chiaroscuro said...

siomai? wala na jud siomai. hehehehe pero nanambok na jud ko ani. mura nako ug gamarijuana ani!! hahahahaha joke!!

or am i just anorexic? mao ba spelling?

11:26 PM  

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