defense mechanism

Everybody's got some ways to protect themselves from others, and well, from themselves, so there is this thing called defense mechanism. Mine works pretty well. I have shitty memory. I just forget what is not pleasant. None of the effort put into the mechanism itself is on the conscious level. It's done in id, without my awareness.

But analyzing things is the one true skill I'm good at. I subconsciously analyze anything insight. A computer, a girl, a relationship, the city I live in, the country I'm from, the universe our planet is in, the very air between my eyes and this very screen. I can't help it. Old habits die hard.

Here are other defense mechanisms:

Denial.
Humor.
Altruism.
Splitting.
Undoing.
Isolation.
Acting out.
Projection.
Avoidance.
Regression.
Repression.
Sublimation.
Idealization.
Anticipation.
Introjection.
Suppression.
Somatization.
Displacement.
Compensation.
Rationalization.
Intellectualization.
Passive Aggression. Reaction formation.




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