Word: denialism
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...happens," says Navy Captain Bill Nash, a psychiatrist who heads the Marines' Operational Stress Control Readiness (OSCAR) program in al-Anbar. "The war here has produced more significant stress injuries than any other conflict since Vietnam," he says. "And you'd have to be exceptionally optimistic and using massive denial to believe we are not going to generate a hell of a lot more of these stress injuries before we are done here...
Troops who don't use official services must find their own coping mechanisms, often within their unit. Leaders try to find downtime for their men, and memorial services for the fallen can help with grieving. But clinically speaking, Nash says, most soldiers and Marines engage in denial and dissociation to get through. "Everybody out here is putting all this stuff in a closet and storing it up," he says, "because you just can't deal with it right...
...Larry doesn't take it well. In just a few minutes, he has experienced the first stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna about Dan, he atavizes into Caveman, the Alpha Male in competitive fury. Where did you make love: what parts of the house, what parts of the body? How did Dan perform? What did he taste like? Was he "better"? "Gentler," she acknowledges, depleted by the hard truths he's forcing out of her. "Sweeter." Larry finally has what he wanted: the instant, utter and mutual eradication of their year-long...
...marriage is a state matter, and citizens have the right to vote their conscience and determine how their state defines civil marriage.” On the other hand, at the end of the article they state that, “In any event, we cannot endorse the formal denial of civil rights and benefits afforded to others-call it marriage, civil union or any other name...
...Edwards, he who often seems to play like he’s in a video game, fair-catching is the antithesis of all that. It is the denial of potential, and thus far, he has happily managed to convert said potential into three touchdowns and nearly 600 return yards without one fumble...