Ego-Defense Mechanisms and How They Protect Us from Reality

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There are times when a person is too scared to expose his vulnerability. A person’s fear or anxiety may be triggered when he encounters an unfavorable situation, and ego defense mechanisms assist an individual in preventing anxiety when exposed to an unfavorable situation. Sigmund Freud initiated the discussion of defense mechanisms in the nineteenth century concerning the subconscious defenses of the id, ego, and superego (Bailey & Pico, 2021). Defense mechanisms involve some kind of distortion of reality in order for us to be better able to deal with a situation. Defense mechanisms work as our defense from reality.
One of the most well-known defense mechanisms is denial. It is frequently used to describe situations where people cannot confront reality or admit an obvious truth—setting aside external reality, concentrating on internal explanations, and avoiding the uncomfortable reality of a situation (Bailey & Pico, 2021). Denial protects the ego from things the person cannot cope with. For example, a person with a terminal illness may deny that he is facing death. In this case, this person ca...