Opinion | F. Diane Barth: 'When events are too painful for people to cope with, denial often kicks in. But the current pandemic makes it truly important for us to face the truth.' - NBCNewsTHINK
, and can be a healthy adaptation in adulthood, if it temporarily helps us manage intolerable feelings and thoughts.
The key phrases there, though, are “a certain amount” and “time to acclimate”: in other words, denial is only healthy when it’s a temporary stopgap measure that helps us accept a scary, unwanted truth — and then, perhaps, take action about it. That, in turn, contributed to a natural tendency we all have: in times of danger, we often turn back to the psychological defense systems of childhood, which include grandiosity, feelings of omnipotence and denial.
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