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Avoiding anxiety by distorting reality characterizes defence mechanisms. Repressing anxiety producing thoughts, denying the reality, making unreasonable feelings reasonable, behaving in the opposite manner and taking out your emotions on someone who doesn't deserve it are few of the defence mechanisms we may take part it. Is it healthy?
Losing people is a part of life. Grieving is an important process that helps us come to terms with it. People adopt different coping mechanisms. Being intact with your feelings and not keeping it all in is an important part of it.
Reactance phenomenon refers to an unpleasant reaction when a person's freedom of behavior is threatened. When the feeling of freedom is threatened, preventing you from acting as you wish, it makes you want to protect your freedom and control it.
Our brain is better at recalling incomplete or interrupted tasks than complete ones. We are more motivated to finish it. Our subconscious mind tells our conscious mind to make a plan to achieve the goal. After the goal is achieved, our mind no longer works on making plans for it.
Familiarity with things can help reduce our perception of them as threats. Eating the same cuisine amidst a variety of choices, developing a preference for a particular song after repeated listenings can be a doing of this effect! But can our preference decrease after repeated exposure?
Boundaries help make healthy relationships. Doing so does not make you self-centred. It's okay to reject something if you are not comfortable with it. It's okay to take a break and not always be ready to be a helper. It's okay to vocalise your feelings. It's okay to put yourself first. Respecting others boundaries is needed if you want others to respect your boundaries.
Do you work better in a group or alone? Have you seen people not putting any effort at all whereas some people putting way too much effort?
Working harder than anyone could have, he set a great example. This is one such case that shows how hard work and the will to do what you desire can lead you to success.
Spotlight effect leads people into believing they are being noticed more than they really are. It makes you think you are the center of attention even if it may not be the case.
Cryptomensia occurs when we believe that a particular idea is a result of our own creativity and imagination. But in reality, we had come across the exact idea before but simply forgot.
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