I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain.
Cassandra ClareTags: humor sarcasm defense-mechanism
I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.
Jodi PicoultTags: defense-mechanism
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.
Criss JamiTags: psychology arrogance persecution challenge ego worth envy starvation defense-mechanism narcissist
Like a lot of people with mental illness, I spend a lot of time fronting. It’s really important to me to not appear crazy, to fit in, to seem normal, to do the things “normal people” do, to blend in.
As a defense mechanism, fronting makes a lot of sense, and you hone that mechanism after years of being crazy. Fronting is what allows you to hold down a job and maintain relationships with people, it’s the thing that sometimes keeps you from falling apart. It’s the thing that allows you to have a burst of tears in the shower or behind the front seat of your car and then coolly collect yourself and stroll into a social engagement…
We are rewarded for hiding ourselves. We become the poster children for “productive” mentally ill people, because we are so organized and together. The fact that we can function, at great cost to ourselves, is used to beat up the people who cannot function.
Because unlike the people who cannot front, or who fronted too hard and fell off the cliff, we are able to “keep it together,” whatever it takes.
Tags: fitting-in crazy mental-illness defense-mechanism stigma emotional-pain hiding-feelings faking-normal faking-well keeping-it-together mental-illness-stigma pretending-to-be-ok psychological-defense putting-on-a-brave-face
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