Difficulties await a person every day and everywhere. In this regard, there are unpleasant sensations, a bad mood, with which everyone copes in different ways. Someone plunges headlong into work or household chores, another tries to find the culprit, the third pretends that everything is as usual and nothing is happening.
A kind of psychological defense arises in difficult situations in life. There are many examples of such protection, here are some of them:
1. Reflection
People sometimes do not want to admit their vices, but when they find themselves in an unpleasant situation, they like to endow others with shortcomings. An insecure person can ascribe not only bad traits to others, but also positive qualities, thereby compensating for the lack of similar advantages in himself. This is how one compares oneself with others, and this is how people try to justify themselves in difficult moments of life.
2. Compensation
There are times when the load on the psyche is very high, and the object of irritation is outside the access zone, and it is simply necessary to throw out the negative. Then the closest ones suffer: spouse, children, parents and friends. Alas, getting psychological relief can hurt dear people.
3. Denial
There are people who deny all the bad things that happen in their lives. They close their eyes to problems, imagining that everything is fine with them, and difficulties have occurred in the life of someone else. Someone just calms down for a while, and someone creates their own reality, afraid to admit to themselves the inevitable.
4. Compensation
Not everyone has such qualities as a sharp mind, attractive appearance, a sense of humor. Then it is possible to resort to the method of compensating for the shortcomings with other advantages. This helps a person not to lose self-esteem, faith in himself and his strength, and to be satisfied with himself.
5. Regression
When problems are too difficult in life, people use regression as a defense. For example, a person may fall into childhood, at a time when his parents took care of him, and the solution of all problems fell on the shoulders of adults.
Everyone has met all these defensive reactions in his life or himself used them. Knowledge of this property of the psyche will help to understand others and oneself. One of these methods will really allow us to resolve the next difficulties, without which human life is probably impossible.
