Coping Mechanisms

Apathy

• Balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment

• Indifference ; a lack of intrest, feeling, concern, or emotion

• Transference of a persons unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else

• Avoidance of unpleasant or anxiety-provoking situations or ideas by rejecting/ignoring them

Compensation

• Analysis of a situation with facts and not emotions

• Keeping away from any person, place, or object that evokes memories of something unpleasant

• Avoidance of unpleasant or anxiety-provoking situations or ideas by rejecting/ignoring them

• Balancing a failure or inadequacy with an accomplishment

Conversion

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• Using words that have the opposite meaning, especially to be funny, insulting, or irritating

• Analysis of a situatuin with facts and not emotions

• Transference of a persons unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else

Denial

• Avoidance of unpleasan or anxiety-provoking situations or ideas by rejecting them or ignoring

• Transference of a person's unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else

• Analysis of a situation with facts and not emotions

• Using words that have the opposite meaning, especially to be funny, insulting, or irritating

Displacement

• Keeping away from any person, place, or object that evokes memories of somethuing unpleasant

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• Redirecrtion of emotions away from its original subject or object onto another less threatning

• Analysis of a situatuin with facts and not emotions

Intellectualization

• Transference of a persons unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else

• Analysis of a situatuin with facts and not emotions

• Avoidance of unpleasan or anxiety-provoking situations or ideas by rejecting them or ignoring

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

Physical Avoidance

• Analysis of a situatuin with facts and not emotions

• Keeping away from any person, place, or object that evokes memories of something unpleasant

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• An explanation that makes something negative or unacceptable seem justifiable or acceptable

Projection

• Transference of a person's unpleasant ideas and emotions onto someone or something else

• Avoidance of unpleasan or anxiety-provoking situations or ideas by rejecting them or ignoring

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• Elimination of unpleasant emotions, desires, or problems from the conscious mind

Rationalization

• Using words that have the opposite meaning, especially to be funny, insulting, or irritating

• Analysis of a situatuin with facts and not emotions

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• An explanation that makes something negative or unacceptable seem justifiable or acceptable

Repression

• A verbal attack on a person without addressing the original intent of the conversation

• Elimination of unpleasant emotions, desires, or problems from the conscious mind

• Transformation of anxiety into a physical symptom that has no cause

• Redirecrtion of emotions away from its original subject or object onto another less threatning