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Who’s in Denial?

Not Me!

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)

Author C.S. Lewis once famously said, “Deni-
al is the shock absorber for the soul. It pro- -

and betrayal, both on their own end and on
the part of others. These tools of denial also
can be a wonderful coping mechanism. -

are in denial, “you’re trying to protect your- Michael McCullough, a psychologist at the
self by refusing to accept the truth about
something that is happening in your life.”
This refusal to accept the truth is a coping

the short-term. If you don’t let yourself think want to be moral people, but the fact is that

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signs of a cancerous, that may mean that

someone who charges on their credit card that their anger is passion and their intracta-
and throws out the bills, denial mean it will
take many more years to get out from un- and wrong. Through this “touch-up” work,
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lead to years of depression.
Therefore, their anger morphs into passion
When Denial is Good for You and their stubbornness into moral reasoning.

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thropology shows that a healthy dose of de-