EDUCATION UGC NET
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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Question
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Stopping yourself from behaving the way you want to
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Suppressing bad memories or current though that cause anxiety
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Suppressing your natural instincts
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Stopping others from behaving inappropriately
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following are some examples of repression: Memories of childhood abuse are often repressed. An individual may not remember the abuse in adulthood, but it can lead to anxiety and difficulty in forming relationships as an adult.
Detailed explanation-2: -Repression is one possible response to something unpleasant. For example, if a person is confronted with a fact about himself that he finds unbearably shameful (a discreditable wish, a degrading fantasy, an embarrassing physical feature), one option is to banish it from awareness, to pretend that it doesn’t exist.
Detailed explanation-3: -Counting to ten before reacting in anger is another example of suppression that can be useful in daily life. In contrast, Repression involves unconsciously forgetting an idea, incident, or experience.
Detailed explanation-4: -Repressed memory examples include being scared of all spiders after receiving a terrible spider bite in childhood. In this example, one might experience sudden anxiety, depression, or a lack of sleep due to the sight of a spider.
Detailed explanation-5: -Example: Jacob cannot remember certain painful memories as a child. To protect himself, he unconsciously represses these memories from his consciousness. Instead, he displays anxious behaviors toward other items that he associates with these original painful memories.