Defense Mechanism Examples by Doanh Do

Someone who feels guilty about cheating on a test accuses others of cheating.

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A person says that they live being social, but then always stays home.

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A person get tunnel vision when they get angry.

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Spending time volunteering at places without expecting something in return to deal with anxiety.

A nurse ignores the stress of seeing death to care for other patients.

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A child who has lost a parent copies the emotions of the other parent.

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Writing novels, poetry, or music to express their feelings to substitute what they are actually feeling.

A person who is blind learns to play the piano.

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Focusing on work will make it so they aren’t thinking about their feelings and might work to keep their mind focused on work.

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A person that survived a disaster helps those in similar events by providing aid

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A student who is nervous for a test volunteers to help a classmate study

A patient who requires an amputation of their leg insists that they dont need the amputation.

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Losing a loved one might make someone repress their grief and avoid any thoughts or feelings about it.

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someone donating an organ for nothing in return

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Someone might start doing activities they did when they were younger to avoid current pressures or responsibilities.

A client who struggled with addiction in the past decides to work at an addiction care center to help people who went through a similar struggle

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someone not being able to do their own work will project those feelings to others and accuse them of being incompetent

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A student worried about a test decides to set their worries aside and preform well playing basketball

A patient forgets about a car crash that took there legs.

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A student who is stressing over a test might take their stress out on their family by displacing the stress onto them.

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someone who is in a relationship but one day the partner doesn’t call and the person immediately thinks “they dont love/care about me”

A person saying that they cheated on their partner becuase they were always away from home.

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Jennifer

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When a toddler gains a new sibling they may go through repression to a stage they have already been through

A client who is saddened by the rainy weather decides to clean and get stuff done around the house using the bad weather as an excuse to get stuff done instead of being sad about it.

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Someone who dislikes someone might go out of their way to be overly nice to them.

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someone not being able to me when they get anxiety

A person buys a gift for the partner they cheated on.

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An athlete puts aside the pressure and anxiety and and focuses on their plays

Someone goes out partying while dealing with depression.

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A client is upset about new changes at work but doesn’t let them get in the way of their performance at work

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Someone who feels bad about messing up at work might start doing tasks beyond their usual tasks to compensate for the mistake.

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Hurricane disaster survivor helps others in the same situation

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someone who was diagnosed with a serious illness ignoring the emotions and going straight to looking at medical articles

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An adult comes home after a stressful day and watches old cartoons from their childhood

Clean the house when spouse or someone else upsets you

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someone who was saved by their seatbelt in a car accident decides to create awareness to the safety and importance of wearing a seatbelt by making YouTube videos

Someone breaking something of someone else’s and saying that it was already broken anyways.

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A client had a traumatic car accident in the past, but doesn’t remember all the details and tries not to think about it too much

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Someone with addiction issues speaking at a group meeting for others with addiction issues.

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A student redirects their stress by cleaning

A nurse who was spat on by a patient treats another patient poorly.

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A young child temporarily stops talking after losing a pet.

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A person afraid on flying always insists that driving is more fun.

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A person not thinking about how they failed their exam so that they can focus on the next one.

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Someone who lost their grandparent volunteers at a animal shelter.

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Hanging out with friends after failing an exam.

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A child teases the person they like

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Someone who bullied a coworker buys them a coffee

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Someone who didn’t get the job they applied for says that it “wasn’t a good fit for them anyway”

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A patient can’t recall the events leading up to their car accident

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A gambler insists they can win back their losses

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An athlete who feels small or weak goes to the gym to build more muscle

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A child starts acting like their bully at school

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A couple going through a break up discussing the logical reasons for the split rather than their own feelings

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Someone with anxiety experiencing severe headaches in certain situations

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Someone who sees their boss as a great mentor until they give critical feedback

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Someone who feels jealous accuses their partner of being jealous

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A teenager cuddles an old stuffed animal for emotional support

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A student gets in trouble at school, is angry about it, and when they get home they are mean to their younger sibling.

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A person who has trouble controlling their anxiety decides to teach others about managing and controlling their anxiety

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A person who was a bully decides to make it up to their previous victims by being overly nice and trying to befriend them.

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A student gets a bad grade on a test they didn’t study for and states none of the material was gone over in class.

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A student begins to replay the events of a bad day they had in there head causing them to zone out during lecture.

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A women who had a false positive pregnancy tests still believes that she is pregnant and that the doctors are wrong

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A student who is struggling in class and not understanding the material decides to get tutoring

A younger sibling is jealous of their older sibling so they begin to dress like them, act like them, and take up the same hobbies

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A clients dog passes away so they begin to research everything they can about the health of dogs and how to help them live longer

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Someone begins to vomit everytime they have an extreme stressor in their life

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A client who loves school and tries really hard to get good grades and then the moment they get a bad grade they give up and decide they hate school

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A person who is going through a rough patch in their relationship starts assuming their close friend is having problems in their relationship as well and makes them believe it

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Using stressors in life as motivation for an intense workout.

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A nurse must suppress their feelings regarding certain topics when it comes to providing healthcare to a patient who does not have the same wishes.

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Throwing a "tantrum" as an adult when things do not go as desired or planned.

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When one grows up in a toxic and chaotic environment that caused emotional damage (and never healed) and later has relationship or self esteem issues.

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Someone who had a bad day at work and takes it out in traffic on the way home, being an aggressive driver.

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Someone in an abusive relationship tries to convince everyone how wonderful the partner/abuser is.

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Saying something mean or rude to someone and then trying to be overly nice.

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Getting fired for bad performance and justifying it by saying something is wrong with the company.

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Being very quiet at family dinner, because you spent the whole conversation over-thinking about something in your head.

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If a dog was diagnosed with a terminal illness and the owner refuses to believe it, thinking the vet is wrong.

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A mother who had overly strict parents growing up, becomes very lenient with her own children.

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A child starts acting and dressing like a popular girl in her school to be more like her.

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Being denied after putting an offer in on a house, and instead of getting mad and giving up, coming up with new and improved ways towards getting approved.

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Someone who has been in a horrible car accident gets tremors whenever they have to ride in one.

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Seeing someone as your absolute best friend and love them, but when they cancel plans, they are all of a sudden your enemy and the worst person.

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Danielle-someone cuts you off in traffic but you continue to look forward to your plans you made and not get upset, at least there was no accident

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A man who lies habitually always accuses others of lying about something.

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Danielle-you lose a pet and try to think of the good times with that pet

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Danielle-an older adult decides to buy and play the Nintendo or sega for a while

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Danielle-Writing in your journal about your feelings

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Danielle-a bariatric patient who tries to inform others they should eat healthier and try to be more active to avoid complications in the future

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A child drops the cookie jar and feels guilty so they try to work extra hard on chores to make up for their breaking the jar

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Danielle-they are just upset, they didn’t really mean to hurt anyone

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Danielle-I really need to use the restroom but I have a couple more things I need to do, I can use it afterward

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Danielle-I’m not tired. I just need to drink another coffee and I will be good.

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Danielle-I cannot find my favorite word puzzles so I will try this new to me and different word puzzles to see how I like them

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Danielle-a patient has their child I. Their room caring for them because the parent cannot care for themselves at the moment

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Danielle-Instead of worrying about if the patient has family to come care for the patient in an emergency the nurse realizes, the nurse is there to care for the patient while the patients family cannot be there or the patient doesn’t have family

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An anxious patient feels so out of sorts they begin to feel palpitations, tachycardia and more respirations

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Danielle-That patient who is incarcerated with a guard by the bed cannot have a spouse or child, mother, father or siblings who loves them. They are in trouble with the law and probably are nothing but trouble

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Danielle-a family is getting together to celebrate and a family member just lost their job. They try not to let it affect the celebration but cannot avoid the feelings of being lost and not knowing how to care for themselves so they look glum while everyone else is trying to be happy

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Memory loss about certain life changes events that can be due to something that happened

An addict may deny having a problem with having an addiction even though they have concerned people trying to help them.

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Someone that isn’t good at school may focus on sports because they are good at them

A teenager may try to dress like everyone else to fit in

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A person diagnosed with cancer may focus on learning everything about it

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Someone may lose the ability to speak or develop a stutter in response to emotional stress

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Someone might think that they are a failure without thinking about their own strengths

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A person who is guilty of something may project their own guilt by blaming others for being dishonest

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when someone gets mad and they start cooking or baking

someone who felt guilty lying to a friend

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children imitating other behaviors

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someone who isn’t good at soccer will try softball because they are better at it

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an alcoholic denying being an alcoholic or having any problem

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forgetting you lost a loved one in an accident

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someone stealing something and justifying it because the other person doesn’t use it

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a person buying a gift for someone after ghosting them

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An alcoholic trying to tell other people they are alcoholics and to get help

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Giving money to a stranger and not expecting any thing back

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Failing a test and then going home and starting a home improvement project

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Baking or shopping to keep busy after a loss

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Someone experiences trauma like a car accident and then can not recall events

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When a person is stressed about a upcoming project they might get in a fight with a significant other

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When someone doesn’t like their boss and then acts very friendly toward them

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A person bumps into someone and then opens the door for them when leaving a room

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A person puts an offer on a house and doesn’t get it so they say the that they didn’t really want it

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when someone is overthinking something they did years ago

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When someone finds out they have been cheated on but they refuse to believe it

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Someone that doesn’t feel comfortable in social situations tries to be overly funny to impress a group

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Someone who likes a specific influencer may try to dress like them

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Someone loses their job and instead of feeling sad about it analyzes their budget

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Someone is happy starts to jump in excitement and waive their arms

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When a friend makes a small mistake and another friend thinks they are the worst

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Someone lies about something so they think everyone is lying to them

An addict working at a rehabilitation center

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A person is upset with their friend and decides to workout their frustration

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Someone is sad but decided to distract themselves to forget their sadness

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Someone had a traumatic childhood, can’t remember it, but is still affected in their day to day life

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A family brings home a new baby and their toddler starts to pee the bed after being potty trained

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A lady is mad at her boss and takes it out on her kids

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A procrastinator tells people how bad procrastination is for their academic success

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A kid hurts their sibling so they tell their sibling that they can hit them back

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Treating a friend bad but excusing it by saying that they weren’t a good friend to them first

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A couple argues in front of their child so the kid dissociates from their conversation

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Not believing that their parent has passed away

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A person isn’t good at making friends so they stick to being successful in school

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A child might act like their sibling to be more like them

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A person didn’t get into their dream college so they go out of their way to figure out exactly why they were rejected

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Someone being extremely anxious they throw up

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looking up to your boss and not accepting that they have been cheating on their spous

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A person is cheating on their spouse so they accuse their spouse of cheating as well

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a mother comes home from work angry at her boss but takes it out on her children

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Talking with a friend who is going through something, in order to stop focusing on their own trauma

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Singing and listening to songs in order to forget all the stressers going on in their life.

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Ignoring their pain by focusing on working out or something else constructive.

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Having childhood trauma that affects personality even if they don't remember the trauma.

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Beginning to do things that they did in childhood because of something traumatic happening.

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Directing anger toward a family member even though they did nothing to cause the anger.

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Trying to help someone with depression while not addressing their own depression.

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Giving a gift to someone after physically or verbally hurting them, expecting to be forgiven because of the gift.

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Cheating on a partner because the partner didn't do something they wanted them to do.

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A person completely forgets about getting robbed at gunpoint.

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A family member dies and someone refused to believe it even though they have seen proof.

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Someone who is bullied goes to the gym to workout and better themself

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A person gets bullied, so they go bully someone else.

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A person dealing with a death in the family has to 'stay strong' for the other family members.

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When someone is depressed and anxious, they get sick more often.

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When driving, the person is perfect as a driver and everyone else is terrible.

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Talking poorly about others and saying it's because they talk poorly about you.

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Becoming a grief counselor after experiencing your grandpa pass away

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A student who is feeling depressed about their grades decides to study and work on homework instead of procrastinating

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a patient you were caring for passes away on your shift, but instead of grieving openly on your shift, you block those feelings to care for your other patients.

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a person was involved in a horrible car accident as a child, and now they get bad anxiety driving in heavy traffic.

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a child experiences thier parents fighting so they start sucking their thumb again even though they previously broke that habit

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a parent has a bad day at work and starts yelling at their children when they get home

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a person teaches their friends how to tell if someone is lying except the person constantly lies to their friends

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a person and their significant other get into a fight and that person buys their significant other flowers afterwards

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Helping a friend grieve a breakup even when you also went through one yourself

A kid taking out anger for parents by chopping wood

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A spouse catches the other cheating but chooses to ignore it to save the marriage

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Randomly crying during a funeral but doesn’t remember what caused the crying to start

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A teenager gets bullied at school and takes anger out on the mother at home

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An athlete is insecure with their skills so they brag about their skills to others

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a person is in a physically abusive relationship, and they rationalize the abuse by saying "it was my fault for not doing the dishes after cooking."

Throwing a rock through a neighbors window but feels bad and buys them a new one

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People explaining their own joke when nobody laughs at it

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A person really has to urinate but their favorite sports team is in a close game so they forget they have to pee in the first place

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a person who has cancer and lost their hair from chemotherapy constantly daydreams about going to the hair salon.

A parent or sibling dies and the child or sibling dismisses it as false

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In basketball a player can’t shoot a three so they get really good down low at their post game

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A lonely kid at school noticed the popular kid and his friends and starts to dress like them

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A person’s grandparent dies of cancer so the person studies the entire pathophysiology of the disease

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Giving money, clothes, or goods to people without expecting recognition, like paying it forward in the drive through line

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Getting fired from a job resulting in you throwing up

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a child stating that it's not true that their parents are getting a divorce.

Channeling emotions into painting, music, writing, or other forms of art.

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In a divorce the spouse tells other people the ex is a “bad” person

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A man cheats on his girlfriend and he assumes she cheated on him as well

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a student feels like they are bad at basketball so they join choir instead

A person who had a difficult childhood may suppress memories of those experiences.

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a teenager is jealous of their classmate so they dye their hair to match their classmate's hair

A person who was in a bad car accident may repress the memories of the event, and being unable to recall the details of the crash

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Asking your boss for a raise and they say no, so you start whining

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a person's house burned down, so they research everything they can do to protect their new house from a fire

In response to a stressful situation a person may revert back to more dependent behaviors

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A person who is upset about something they cannot control, they may displace their anger on to another object like punching a pillow, or slamming a door.

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a person who gets angry begins to visibly tremble and feel their heart racing

Being overly nice to someone you dislike

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A person who has restricted their food intake may later indulge in binge eating.

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a nurse who is caring for a patient who is known to be abusive towards their significant other, doesn't give the best quality of care because "the patient doesn't deserve good care for what they have done".

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a person constantly lies to their spouse, so they accuse their spouse of lying to them as well

A person who was speeding while driving may say everyone else was speeding in order to justify their behavior

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Someone who donates money to an organization to help others but does not expect anything in return

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A person may find themselves zoning out or daydreaming to mentally escape and avoid dealing with the stress they are feeling

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A person who is refusing to acknowledge or accept a serious illness.

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Someone who takes their anger out into painting a picture instead of expressing it negratively

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Someone who avoids thinking about a stressful event such as an interview for a job and focuses it on something else

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Someone who feels insecure in social situations may compensate by being the life of the party

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Someone who forgets a traumatic experience such as a car accident and their mind blocks out the memory to protect them from the emotional pain

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Aligning your views with a friends beliefs to avoid conflict

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Someone who throws a tantrum snd acts childish when faced with a stressful situation when things do not go their way

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Someone who is angry at their boss goes home and takes their anger out on someone else by yelling instead of addressing the real issue

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A person starting a new job experiences anxiety and may intellectualize their feelings without addressing the deeper emotional issue

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Someone who feels insecure about their appearance acts overly vain and constantly compliments themselves, masking their true feelings of inadequacy

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Someone who feels guilty about snapping at a friend and later tries to compensate by buying them a gift

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Someone with extreme anxiety experiencing chest pain

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Someone who fails a test and tries to make excuses instead of openly admitting they did not better prepare for it

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Perceiving a teacher as either perfect or terrible

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Someone who experienced a traumatic event feels detatched from their surroundings and feels as they are currently watching the situation from outside the body

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Someone who is a smoker refuses to admit the health risks and denies it will happen to them

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Commenting negatively about how someone looks because you are insecure about your own appearance

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Someone who feels insecure about their appearance becomes skilled in a talent such as playing the piano to gain confidence and recieve praise for their abilities

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A teenager starts to adopt certain traits of a popular celebreity that they admire to feel connected with them

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Someone who is faced with a serious health diagnosis talks about it in a detached way, focusing on medical facts rather than focusing on the emotional impact of the news

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Someone who experiences severe stress and suddenly experiences a physical symptom to cope with the emotional pain

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A child who views one of their parents as perfect and the other as flawed

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Someone who feels angry at their friend acuses them of being angry with them even if the friend shows no indication of being angry towards them

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someone with childhood trauma not remembering exactly what happened but let’s it affect their current life

2025-03-07 03:57:47 UTC

an adult having a stressful time starts acting childish

2025-03-07 03:58:50 UTC

someone stressing about a class at school and can’t get upset with their teacher goes home and snaps at their partner

2025-03-07 05:49:06 UTC

Helping a friend after losing a loved one because you know how it feels to lose a loved one

Cleans the house when they are sad to distract from what they’re actually feeling

2025-03-07 05:50:24 UTC

Acting like everything is fine on the outside when really they’re drowning in their own thoughts on the inside

2025-03-07 05:52:57 UTC

A person having a traumatic childhood now doesn’t remember everything as an adult because their body helped repress the memories to try and protect itself

2025-03-07 05:54:40 UTC

2025-03-07 05:56:35 UTC

A person is facing hard challenges at their job and due to high stress they express childlike behaviors such as throwing a tantrum/pouting

Displacement

2025-03-07 05:58:22 UTC

Being frustrated with your boss at work, and rather addressing it with your boss, you go home and take it out on your partner or kids.

2025-03-07 06:00:28 UTC

Someone who has a partner that struggles with alcoholism continues to claim that they don’t have an issue and that they have no problems at all.

2025-03-07 06:02:22 UTC

A person buying a gift after breaking so many promise in hopes that it will “fix” their wrong doings.

2025-03-07 06:04:18 UTC

They cheated on their partner because they feel like they weren’t getting enough attention at home.

2025-03-07 06:06:00 UTC

Disconnecting from reality so they don’t have to face the pain of real life.

2025-03-07 06:08:04 UTC

Refusing to believe that they lost a family member to suicide

2025-03-07 06:19:44 UTC

Not good at singing so instead they focus on photography because they are good at it.

2025-03-07 06:21:40 UTC

A child changes their hairstyle to fit in with the popular kids at school.

2025-03-07 06:24:24 UTC

Losing a family member to suicide and taking their experience to help others find resources to help with suicidal ideation

2025-03-07 06:30:24 UTC

Not being able to eat food when upset

2025-03-07 06:31:25 UTC

A person says they’re super confrontational but then never says anything to anyone ever

2025-03-07 06:32:26 UTC

Someone who cheated on their partner accuses their partner of cheating on them

Destiny

2025-03-08 22:32:59 UTC

After experiencing a loss, someone volunteers at a local charity to help other in need

2025-03-08 22:33:36 UTC

a person with anger issues becomes a boxer to express their emotions in a socially acceptable way

2025-03-08 22:34:07 UTC

a student deliberately avoids thinking about their upcoming assignments and tests while attending a party

2025-03-08 22:34:36 UTC

a person who experienced a traumatic event in childhood has no recollection of it in their adult life

2025-03-08 22:35:10 UTC

an adult, when stressed, starts sucking their thumb or cuddling a childhood toy

2025-03-08 22:35:39 UTC

after a long day at work, a person may come home and take their frustration out on their family or pets

2025-03-08 22:36:07 UTC

someone who feels insecure about their own abilities may act overly confident and boastful

2025-03-08 22:36:34 UTC

after having a negative thought about someone, a person may go out of their way to be excessively nice to them

2025-03-08 22:36:54 UTC

after failing an exam, a student may say the test wasn’t important or the questions were unfair

2025-03-08 22:37:30 UTC

during a stressful situation, a person may feel detached from their surroundings or feel they are watching themselves from outside their body

2025-03-08 22:37:56 UTC

a person with substance abuse problems may refuse to acknowledge that their behavior is harmful

2025-03-08 22:38:23 UTC

someone who feels inadequate at their job may excel as a parent to make up for it

2025-03-08 22:38:48 UTC

a teenager adopts the behaviors and style of a popular group to feel accepted

2025-03-08 22:39:15 UTC

instead of dealing with the emotional aspects of a situation, someone may focus solely on the facts

2025-03-08 22:39:46 UTC

a person who is extremely stressed may develop physical symptoms such as paralysis or blindness without a medical cause

2025-03-08 22:40:19 UTC

a person may see someone as completely bad or good without regaining the complexity of human behavior

2025-03-08 22:40:45 UTC

someone who is angry at a coworker might accuse them of being hostile towards them