2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Cancellation is a psychological defense that consists in an unconscious attempt to balance some uncomfortable feeling (shame, guilt, fear). In other words, a person takes actions that, in his opinion, will atone for guilt, relieve him of the expected punishment.
The consequences of constant use of this protection can be dire.
For example, a girl from childhood carries an unprocessed feeling of guilt towards her parents, which makes her unconsciously seek punishment for herself, as a result of which she is continually raped, gets into accidents, etc. When she suffers, she seems to atone for her guilt.
Another example. A man constantly suffers, devaluing all the good in his life. When you make him think about what this gives him, he voices the installation that if today was a good day, tomorrow you will certainly have to pay a hundredfold: "I'd rather suffer a little in advance so that some trouble doesn't happen."
Such a picture of the world dooms a person to eternal pessimism, depression, anxious expectation of failure, trouble.
Another example of cancellation is the fear of stepping on cracks in the pavement. The person convinces himself that if he does not step on the cracks on the way to work, then he will not get into trouble, the day will be successful.
However, if he nevertheless steps on a crack, he will be in an anxious expectation of something bad all day, thereby programming himself for this.
Feeling guilty for some unacceptable thoughts or actions, a person can atone for sins, engage in charity.
A guilty husband can give his wife gifts, become compliant.
The disadvantages of such behavior are that a person begins to relate tolerantly to his destructive actions, because he always has the opportunity to appease the inner critic or imaginary gods with such a "redemptive" act.
A parent, feeling guilty before the child for his emotional detachment, begins to overly patronize him, pamper him with purchases, forming a consumer attitude, instead of understanding the reasons for the detachment.
Inducing vomiting after binge eating can also act as an atonement for food intemperance in people with CRP.
The constant unconscious use of undoing replaces problem solving with rituals and self-deception.
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