Events related to Defense Mechanism
Denial: when my grandfather passed away, I was told about it while I was still in university and after hearing it I went back to the lounge and laughed with my friends as if nothing happened.
Projection: I’ve been wanting to eat healthy and stop eating junk food but I still do eat junk food and every time I see my brother having junk food I lecture him about how unhealthy and bad it, same thing happens when he asks for it.
Repression: once my parents were having a fight and I just put my head phones on and started watching a movie as if nothing was happening and to this day I remember doing it but not to the extent that my sister remembers it. She says that my parents almost had a divorce but I remember it as a normal fight.
Regression: when my younger brother was born. I started wanting to drink from the bottle again and sleep next to my parents.
Reaction Formation: In school a lot of my classmates were super religious and had a strong opinion on praying like a person should force themselves to pray so they can be good Muslims but I don’t agree with that, I do miss prayers because I feel like a person should want to pray and it’s more than just getting the “job” done but I never said anything and would agree with them.
Displacement: once before a wedding I didn’t like the way I did my hair and when my sister came to help me with my makeup I started screaming at her and telling her she’s doing things wrongly and it was because of her I didn’t want to go to the wedding.