Coping Mechanisms

• Acting out: not coping - giving in to the pressure to misbehave.
• Aim inhibition: lowering sights to what seems more achievable.
• Altruism: Helping others to help self.
• Attack: trying to beat down that which is threatening you.
• Avoidance: mentally or physically avoiding something that causes distress.
• Compartmentalization: separating conflicting thoughts into separated compartments.
• Compensation: making up for a weakness in one area by gain strength in another.
• Conversion: subconscious conversion of stress into physical symptoms.
• Denial: refusing to acknowledge that an event has occurred.
• Displacement: shifting of intended action to a safer target.
• Dissociation: separating oneself from parts of your life.
• Emotionality: Outbursts and extreme emotion.
• Fantasy: escaping reality into a world of possibility.
• Help-rejecting complaining: Ask for help then reject it.
• Idealization: playing up the good points and ignoring limitations of things desired.
• Identification: copying others to take on their characteristics.
• Intellectualization: avoiding emotion by focusing on facts and logic.
• Introjection: Bringing things from the outer world into the inner world.
• Passive aggression: avoiding refusal by passive avoidance.
• Performing rituals: Patterns that delay.
• Post-traumatic growth: Using the energy of trauma for good.
• Projection: seeing your own unwanted feelings in other people.
• Provocation: Get others to act so you can retaliate.
• Rationalization: creating logical reasons for bad behavior.
• Reaction Formation: avoiding something by taking a polar opposite position.
• Regression: returning to a child state to avoid problems.
• Repression: subconsciously hiding uncomfortable thoughts.
• Self-harming: physically damaging the body.
• Somatization: psychological problems turned into physical symptoms.
• Sublimation: channeling psychic energy into acceptable activities.
• Substitution: Replacing one thing with another.
• Suppression: consciously holding back unwanted urges.
• Symbolization: turning unwanted thoughts into metaphoric symbols.
• Trivializing: Making small what is really something big.
• Undoing: actions that psychologically 'undo' wrongdoings for the wrongdoer.

5 Stages of Grief (Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle)

• Shock stage*: Initial paralysis at hearing the bad news.
• Denial stage: Trying to avoid the inevitable.
• Anger stage: Frustrated outpouring of bottled-up emotion.
• Bargaining stage: Seeking in vain for a way out.
• Depression stage: Final realization of the inevitable.
• Testing stage*: Seeking realistic solutions.
• Acceptance stage: Finally finding the way forward.

Among my books...

on Trying Times

Life is full of uncertainties yet is infinitely interesting.

During those trying times, what do you do? Who do you call on to?

Press the panic button!

Cry! Tears become companions!

... call God using His private line - Prayer - hoping He would answer and reply back... 
But chances are, He remains silent... 
sometimes for a short moment, 
at times for a long, long time... 


Then the long wait... 

He then sends His angels, disguised as friends to deliver His message...

I'm Interested in...

• Probability and Statistics
• Numbers, Codes and Patterns
• People and Behaviour
• Chaos and Fractal Theory
• Butterfly Effect

• "...in a chaotic system, it is the sensitive dependence on an initial condition. where a miniscule change in one place at a nonlinear system can result to a far-reaching huge difference and large-scale effect in the development of the system to a later state..."

Ghost word

The only ghost word in the M-W dictionary is "Dord".
Physics and Chemistry for Density. Which actually should be "D or d"!
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/video/0027-ghostword.htm

SUCCESS = KHASHH

Success cannot be achieved overnight but over time...

a product of KASHH

• KNOWLEDGE - Learned
• HABIT - Developed
• ATTITUDE - Acquired
• SKILLS - Honed
• HARDWORK - Produced
• HEALTH - Valued

Somewhere in Time

With my batch:
(2006 HS Reunion Notre Dame of Dadiangas Girls Dept.)

The morning after our Reunion... just got up and still beautiful!

Cora Guinto, Regina Raval, Annamae Mapalo, Clemencia Dinopol, Suita Siao, Helen Clarin, Joanne Tan, Luz Narciso.