Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.[1] The subject may use:
simple denial: deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether
minimisation: admit the fact but deny its seriousness (a combination of denial and rationalization)
projection: admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility.
The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality. Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape. More recent research has significantly expanded the scope and utility of the concept. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death. Thus, when parents are informed of the death of a child, their first reaction is often of the form, "No! You must have the wrong house, you can't mean our child!"[citation needed]
Unlike some other defense mechanisms postulated by psychoanalytic theory (for instance, repression), the general existence of denial is fairly easy to verify, even for non-specialists. On the other hand, denial is one of the most controversial defense mechanisms, since it can be easily used to create unfalsifiable theories: anything the subject says or does that appears to disprove the interpreter's theory is explained, not as evidence that the interpreter's theory is wrong, but as the subject's being "in denial". However, researchers note that in some cases of corroborated child sexual abuse, the victims sometimes make a series of partial confessions and recantations as they struggle with their own denial and the denial of abusers or family members.[2]
The concept of denial is important in twelve-step programs, where the abandonment or reversal of denial forms the basis of the first, fourth, fifth, eighth and tenth steps. The ability to deny or minimize is an essential part of what enables an addict to continue his or her behavior despite evidence that—to an outsider—appears overwhelming. This is cited as one of the reasons that compulsion is seldom effective in treating addiction—the habit of denial remains.
When a family intervention is conducted to help a person engaged in self-destructive behavior such as alcohol or drug abuse to accept help for his problem, denial is sometimes reduced or eliminated altogether. This is not always necessary, however, for the intervention to be successful in having the person accept help.
Understanding and avoiding denial is also important in the treatment of various diseases. The American Heart Association cites denial as a principal reason that treatment of a heart attack is delayed. Because the symptoms are so varied, and often have other potential explanations, the opportunity exists for the patient to deny the emergency, often with fatal consequences. It is common for patients to delay mammograms or other tests because of a fear of cancer, even though this is clearly maladaptive. It is the responsibility of the care team, and of the nursing staff in particular, to train at-risk patients to avoid such behavior.
HOW IS HONOR DIFFERENT FROM OTHER VAMPIRE RAVE RATINGS?
The current Vampire Rave profile/portfolio/etc rating system is flawed. Premium Members can see ratings others make in regard to them. As a result, the ratings left are oftentimes not honest. Some Premium Members go so far as to bully other members into raising their ratings. To counteract this effect, when you give a member Honor, it can be either visible or invisible. If invisible, the affected member will not see who did it.
Additionally, you can only rate a member's profile/portfolio/etc once. With Honor, you can give or take it multiple times, greatly affecting their overall Honor score.
mingi: An a for effort on behalf of cancer, however this is by no means an "honest" system, dont believe me?
go have a look at some of the people who are high ups in honor and then go look at who it is doing all the honoring, its all the same people with multiple profiles, but there is room for improvement if the site is thought through a little better and redesigned..just my opinion and you all know the old saying about opinions.
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Funny how by his own admission the prince says his rate system is flawed yet he did nothing to fix it, just made another flawed system.
I use all numbers and even if I admit at times it does not please me to get low numbers, I respect their opinion when its given with honesty and not out of spit, meaning I give an empty profile a 3 or 5 or 8, then this empty and I mean beside the quote empty, they come by and gave the same?
If they do it because they really beleive I did not work enough and there is place for improvement its an honest rate I respect that, if its given just cause they are want to "sort of bully show off going to give back " then I will consider their rate as an insult to the human intelligence, and see them as untelligent beings, because instead of coming by and say: hey, can you come back and rerate when you got a minutes I've done some work
they chose to forget to use this intelligence...
because I do rerates and I also rate according on content not level, not friends, only on content, you work you deserve it, you do not know how to do it and you at least try you earn the high numbers....
now as for honor... so far I did not 'take' any... first because I can't take honor, its a virtual web site, and second, if the person has none to start with, what can I take if its not there?
So I give, not all my 5 a day, most of the time I do not have the time to spare to do so, I just give here and there to those I feel like giving for a specific reason hell I even gave to my ennemies on my main profile CryingMist and thats a 21 honor right there... why? Because even if we disagree, its still just a website. Not real life.
Enjoy your time :)
I can respect that, all I was saying is if "honor" is based on the honor system , then its not going to work hence it's flawed and not a true reflection of said honor...what ever that means to you...if one person has 19 profiles and uses all of them to up or down honor someone than like manipulation in voting polls it does not work as intended, now if we were only allowed to give honor to each person only once it might work because you would think twice before the deed...everyone has there own thing when it comes to this honor feature but In my opinion it's about as useless as the bite feature.
The honor system is a junk rating at the moment so who cares.
Actually, looking at the highest rated profiles only one member has been able to rate herself from her own multies. The rest have rated multiple times by their friends multies and the sock puppet profiles that their friends set up.
The way the coding is done I cannot rate any of my profiles from my own profiles(I have three). I cannot rate my husbands profile. I cannot rate the profile that I traded for my lifetime membership profile or any of the profiles connected to that one by IP.
I can rate my son's profile because he hasn't logged in since July but if he logs in today the honor rates either disappear or I just can't leave any.
As far as the system being fair, it only hurts the people who take it seriously. Of course the system is rigged so the most influential are on top you silly goose.
very good points ive noticed that one myself i only have 1 profile but i already have some one trying to get me another which i didnt ask for.
Honer Schmoner lols
you said it :)
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