The first stage of the grieving process where people try to reassure themselves that their loved one hasn't died, which is a completely normal grieving process because it is the brain's way of pacing the grieving process to deter one from going off the rails.
by Rotten Turkey September 2, 2022
by U dont know me lolol April 21, 2011
A psychological defense mechanism initiated by the psyche to temporarily suppress awareness of a deluded self-concept.
Denial may be understood as an attempt to reject unacceptable feelings, needs, thoughts, wishes, or even a painful external reality that alters our perception of ourselves. This psychological defense mechanism protects us temporarily from:
* Knowledge (things we don’t want to know)
* Insight or awareness that threatens our self-esteem; or our mental or physical health; or our security (things we don't want to think about)
* Unacceptable feelings (things we don’t want to feel)
Some of the forms of denial: rationalization, minimizing or discounting, evasion and displacement, exaggerated emotional responses, projection or blaming, intellectualization, repression, rhetorical ploys, and logical fallacies.
Denial may be understood as an attempt to reject unacceptable feelings, needs, thoughts, wishes, or even a painful external reality that alters our perception of ourselves. This psychological defense mechanism protects us temporarily from:
* Knowledge (things we don’t want to know)
* Insight or awareness that threatens our self-esteem; or our mental or physical health; or our security (things we don't want to think about)
* Unacceptable feelings (things we don’t want to feel)
Some of the forms of denial: rationalization, minimizing or discounting, evasion and displacement, exaggerated emotional responses, projection or blaming, intellectualization, repression, rhetorical ploys, and logical fallacies.
"I won't think about that today" was Scarlet O'Hara's use of repression as a form of denial. (from Gone With The Wind)
"I only drink beer, not the hard stuff so it's no big deal" is Joe's use of minimizing as a form of denial.
"I only drink beer, not the hard stuff so it's no big deal" is Joe's use of minimizing as a form of denial.
by sugarb November 18, 2006
A word that a certain someone made. The act of doing something so bad that Michael Jackson would rise from the dead and moonwalk his way to you just for one, big slap.
by icantseemypseudonym! November 26, 2017
by gunblade October 8, 2004
by Johnny O'ndaspot January 6, 2005
The act of denying proven facts about politics because the person does not want to admit an the truth.
The denialism in much of America has convinced many Republicans that Liberals are dependent on federal government. But in reality the Liberal states pay hundreds of billions of dollars per year to help assist their ungrateful political opponents.
by Davezilla July 7, 2019