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Tend and Befriend - A stress response alternative to fight-or-flight, especially common in women - nurturing and seeking social support.
Self-Soothing - Techniques for calming oneself through the five senses and nurturing self-care during emotional distress.
Experiential Avoidance - The tendency to avoid or suppress unwanted internal experiences such as thoughts, emotions, and sensations, often at the cost of meaningful engagement with life.
Reaction Formation - A defense mechanism where a person behaves in the opposite way to their true feelings to conceal unacceptable impulses from themselves and others.
Coping Mechanism - An automatic behavioral or psychological pattern used to manage stress, anxiety, or emotional pain, ranging from adaptive to maladaptive.
Emotional Suppression - The deliberate effort to inhibit or hide emotional expressions and experiences, which paradoxically often intensifies the suppressed emotions.
Stress Inoculation - Controlled exposure to manageable stress to build tolerance and coping skills for future challenges.
Sublimation - A mature defense mechanism that channels unacceptable impulses and drives into socially constructive and valued activities.
Defense Mechanisms - Unconscious psychological strategies used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety and distressing thoughts or feelings.
Distress Tolerance - Skills for surviving and accepting crisis situations without making them worse through impulsive or destructive actions.
Psychological Regression - A defense mechanism in which a person reverts to behaviors characteristic of an earlier developmental stage when facing stress or conflict.

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