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covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desireable
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| refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it |
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| transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral |
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| an attempt to increase self-worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires |
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| attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis |
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| integrating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure |
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| attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors |
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| preventing unacceptable or undesireable thoughts of behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors |
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| retreating in response to stress to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning |
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| involuntarily blockig unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness |
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| rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive |
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| the voluntarily blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness |
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| separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone, or emotion associated with it |
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| attributing feeling or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person |
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| symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable |
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| Dealing with Mild Anxiety |
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Coping Mechanisms
sleeping, eating, yawning, drinking, exercise, smoking, crying, pacing, laughing, talking it out with somone |
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Dealing with Moderate Anxiety
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Ego Defense Mechanisms
compensation, denial, displacement, identification, isolation, projection, rationalization, regression, repression, sublimation, suppression, undoing |
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| Psychophysiological Responses to Anxiety |
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| headaches, anorexia, arthritis, colitis, ulcers, asthma, pain, cancer, CHD, sexual dysfunction |
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| Psychoneurotic Responses to Severe Anxiety |
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| phobias, obsessions, compulsions, hypochondriasis, conversion disorder, multiple-personalities, amnesia, fugue |
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| Psychotic Responses to Panic Anxiety |
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| schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder |
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clinical disorders and other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
(mental illness diagnosis) |
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Personality Disorders and mental retardation
(personality) |
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General medical conditions
(medical) |
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Psychosocial and environmental problems
(environment) |
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Score GAF
(scale that measures an individuals psychological, social, and occupational functioning) |
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