Emotions

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Emotions Defense Mechanisms

• By S Chaudhry

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Emotions

• Emotions are the strong, immediate reactions that
  you feel in response to an action

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Love

• A strong affection or deep concern for another
  person is love
• Love exists between family, and friends but the
  deepest form of it is between a married couple

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Anger

• Anger is a strong feeling of displeasure that can
  range from annoyance to complete fury.
• Hostility and frustration are all feelings of
  displeasure

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Fear

• Fear is felt when you feel you are in danger
• The fear of failing can cause anxiety which makes
  you feel nervous like this guy on the left

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Grief

• Grief is a deep sorrow caused by the loss of
  someone or something
• Grief can be caused by loss of something and can
  be very painful

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5 steps of Grief

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

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Guilt

• Guilt is a feeling of having done something wrong
• Hannibal had no conscience nor guilt foe other
  and was able to perform unthinkable feats

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Defense Mechanisms

• Defense Mechanisms are ways to protect, or
  defend, yourself from feeling too much pain

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Repression

• Repression is the most basic of all defense
  mechanisms
• Painful thoughts or feeling are pushed away from
  conscious thought in repression

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Rationalization

• Rationalization is making an excuse for a
  behavior
• People do this because the reality is to
  difficult to face
• My dog ate my homework

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Compensation

• Covering up for weaknesses in one area and
  switching to another is called compensation
• Compensation can be helpful to develop skills in
  other areas

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Projection

• Seeing your own faults or feelings in other
  people, even when they do not have them, is
  called projection
• People use this to cover up for their own poor
  behavior

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Idealization

• Idealization is seeing someone as being so
  perfect that you dont see how the really are
• This is common in hero worship

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Daydreaming

• Daydreaming is the creation of make-believe
  events that seem more pleasant or exciting than
  the real world
• People often daydream to escape from frustration
  or hurt of difficult situations

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Regression

• Regression is acting less maturely than you would
• Regression is used when someone wants attention
  or are less maturely handling something big

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Denial

• Denial is the refusal of reality
• People use denial when they do not want to
  believe something that has happened

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Sublimation

• Sublimation is the replacement of undesirable
  impulses with acceptable behavior
• When someone is angry for some reason he/she can
  use sublimation to release some anger

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Displacement

• Displacement is shifting the feelings about
  something to another person who is innocent
• After a heated discussion with one friend that
  person might take it out on another friend

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Reaction Formation

• This means to hide your true feelings by acting
  in a manner you would opposite of what you
  usually act
• This can be result of admiring another person and
  acting as if you hardly notice them

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Defenses and Emotions

• Understanding Emotions and Defense Mechanisms can
  be helpful to a person growing up and learning
• Relying too much on Defense Mechanisms can be bad
  because they will experience more problems later
  in life

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The End... Or is it?(Yes it is)