Schizo New Psychological Defense Mechanism: Self-Obfuscation

[Soyteen Liker]

I don't know if other people have something similar but I seem to have this mechanism in my psyche that makes outside input about the world get obfuscated (mixed up) into something that "doesn't apply to me" even though it does; it's simply perceived very differently. When I approach a problem within myself and feel myself come to a conclusion that makes sense, this mechanism comes into play and makes it not make sense.

Another characteristic of this defense is that once it's observed, it activates. Like right now, it's like quantum physics uncertainty. "That's not true!" methinks; but the proceeding thought doesn't come because I'm observing the previous one. I guess it's like, hyper-denial in a way; a way to protect myself against suffering by saying "I'm experiencing something else entirely!" with that something else supporting its own existence.

I would like to say more but I want it to be true as best as my ability.

 

[princessparkles]

I don't know if other people have something similar but I seem to have this mechanism in my psyche that makes outside input about the world get obfuscated (mixed up) into something that "doesn't apply to me" even though it does; it's simply perceived very differently. When I approach a problem within myself and feel myself come to a conclusion that makes sense, this mechanism comes into play and makes it not make sense.

Another characteristic of this defense is that once it's observed, it activates. Like right now, it's like quantum physics uncertainty. "That's not true!" methinks; but the proceeding thought doesn't come because I'm observing the previous one. I guess it's like, hyper-denial in a way; a way to protect myself against suffering by saying "I'm experiencing something else entirely!" with that something else supporting its own existence.

I would like to say more but I want it to be true as best as my ability.

can you give me an example of how this happens? like the outside factor and then how it gets mixed using an example

 

[Disabled Male]

I have experienced this before. I described it to myself a different way but I think it is the same phenomenon.

I'm a loser, I have an younger acquaintance who is less of a loser. On once occasion I went to bed with tear in my eyes because I knew he was staying up late (and not while hanging out with friends) and I knew how bad that is for your health. Basically I could generate empathy for someone else who is wasting their life and not getting anywhere, but I couldn't generate it for myself. Then I realized "wait, other people who care about me probably feel this way about me, and how I am wasting my life... even if they don't cry in front of me about it, it isn't like I'm crying in front of him about it either." So I sort of categorized it as a failure to empathize with people recursively. Like if I seed someone with a nail in their hand I'm like "Oh, that hurts" but maybe I don't automatically empathize with people who suffer from their empathy for others.

 

[BLACKHAWK]

what you're experincing is idiocy.

 

[BLACKHAWK]

I have experienced this before. I described it to myself a different way but I think it is the same phenomenon.

I'm a loser, I have an younger acquaintance who is less of a loser. On once occasion I went to bed with tear in my eyes because I knew he was staying up late (and not while hanging out with friends) and I knew how bad that is for your health. Basically I could generate empathy for someone else who is wasting their life and not getting anywhere, but I couldn't generate it for myself. Then I realized "wait, other people who care about me probably feel this way about me, and how I am wasting my life... even if they don't cry in front of me about it, it isn't like I'm crying in front of him about it either." So I sort of categorized it as a failure to empathize with people recursively. Like if I seed someone with a nail in their hand I'm like "Oh, that hurts" but maybe I don't automatically empathize with people who suffer from their empathy for others.

just do biological function.