Defense Mechanism

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Across
  1. 2. reaction of the mind and body to a stimulus that disturbs the well-being, state of calm, or equilibrium of a person
  2. 4. Negative Stress
  3. 7. Positive Stress
  4. 9. use of reasoning to effectively avoid confrontation with an emotional stress thereby protecting the self
  5. 10. shifting one’s aggression towards something or someone that is a lot weaker and uncompromising
  6. 12. one blames another person or objects for his failures or fault
  7. 13. refusing to accept an external reality to protect the self, an unconscious way to resolve emotional conflict
Down
  1. 1. Reverting to earlier behaviors
  2. 2. self-destructive as a result of hatred on oneself or to another which resulted to extreme frustration
  3. 3. Anger prolonged as a sign of extreme anger
  4. 5. Replacing an unwanted impulse with its opposite
  5. 6. a situation or event that causes us to feel stressed
  6. 8. Justifying an unacceptable feeling or behavior with logic
  7. 11. utilizing imagination as a way to escape from life’s real problems and stress