B.

Withdrawal Reaction

• This response to stress involves the use of ‘defense mechanisms’

which subsequently protects the ‘ ego’ or ‘the self’.

Defense mechanisms
-are psychological strategies that are unconsciously used to protect a
person from anxiety arising from unacceptable thoughts or feelings.
1. Denial refusing to accept an external reality to protect the ‘self’ an
unconscious way to resolve emotional conflict.
2. Displacement shifting one’s aggression towards something or
someone that is a lot weaker and uncompromising.

3. Intellectualization use of reasoning to effectively avoid confrontation

with an emotional stress thereby protecting the self.
4. Rationalization providing a logical justification for a decision made
or an act performed to make an excuse for a mistake.

5. Reaction-Formation a defense mechanism in which unacceptable

emotions are being replaced by its opposite to prevent rejection from
others.
6. Projection attributing one’s fault or negative emotions onto others to express the
sentiment though not recognizing it.

7.Regression in the face of hurts we use an ‘imagined time machine’ to revert a

more pleasant past where we are more safe and secure.
8.Repression/Supperssion defense mechanisms where one pushes the
unwanted thoughts onto the unconscious which however may manifets in the
future unknowingly.
9.Sublimation refocusing or rechanneling one’s energy to something more
acceptable and productive.

10.Fantasy utilizing imagination as a way to escape from life’s real problem

and stress.