Defense Mechanisms and Disorders

3. Thoughts of worthlessness, hopelessness and suicide.
4. The conversion of an impulse or behavior into its opposite.
5. Lack of interest and avoidance of intimate relationships.
6. Redirect anger impulses to someone who is less threatening or powerful.
7. Criminal behavior.
10. Irrational fears.
11. Refusal to accept or recognize an unpleasant external reality.
14. a memory that "has its volume on too high".
17. Fear and feelings of doom not justified by the situation.
20. Justification of behavior through the use of believable, but inaccurate, excuses.
21. Combines depression with mania.
22. Need to be cared for and fear of rejection.
23. Fear of places where escape may be difficult.
26. disorder Less severe than unipolar, low self esteem and motivation.

1. Persistent anxiety at a moderate but disturbing level.
2. Excessive emotionality, attention seeking behavior, drama queen.
8. attribute their own undesirable characteristics to others.
9. / Perfectionism and anxiety resulting from the slightest disruptions from one's routine.
12. The refusal to feel a feeling.
13. Grandiose thoughts and feelings of one's own worth.
15. Substitutes ideas for feelings.
16. Involves redirecting one's feeling from one person to another.
18. Rapidly shifting sense of self.
19. "Unacceptable" impulses are transformed into socially acceptable ones.
24. Chronic and pervasive mistrust of people, which is unwarranted.
25. Fear of being criticized.