Words – Compensating Mechanisms

Abate Abuse Act out Addiction
Admire Affiliate Affront Anticipate
Asperse Attack Attenuate Avert
Avoid Badmouth Ban Barr
Belittle Block Cancel Censor
Compare Compartmentalize Compensate Condemn
Condescend Confabulate Constrain Consume
Converse Complain Compulse Compulsive eating
Compulsive sex Conditionalize Cut Cutting Body
Debase Damage Debilitate Decline
Decrease Decline Defame Defer
Deflate Degrade Dehumanize Delay
Demean Denigrate Deny Depend
Devaluate Diminish Disallow Disappear
Disapprove Disbelieve Discard Disclaim
Disconcert Discourage Dislike Disparage
Displace Disqualify Dissociate Distort
Distress Dither Doubt Downgrade
Drinking Alcohol Dry Dwindle Eating
Eliminate Emotionalize Emulate Encumber
End Envy Equivocate Exclude
Exercising Escape Exaggerate Fade
Fail Falter Fantasize Finish
Forbid Forget Hamper Harm
Hesitate Hinder Hollow Hope
Humor Hurt Hypochondriasis Idealize
Identify Impede Inhibit Injure
Insult Intellectualize Isolate Jam
Judge Lessen Libel Lie
Long Lower Malign Minimize
Moralize Negate Obscure Obsess
Obstruct Offend Omit Omnipotence
Other-Control Other-Harm Over drinking alcohol Over eating
Over exercising Passive Aggression Plan Postpone
Preclude Pretend Prevent Prohibit
Project Projective-Blame Project-Identify Proscribe
Provoke Pseudo-Quest Question Rationalize
Reaction Reaction formation Reduce Refuse
Religion Regress Repeat Repress
Ridicule Rip Ritualize Ruin
Shackle Shrink Seek Self-Center
Self-Control Self-Harm Slander Slash
Slight Slump Somatise Split
Squash Stall Starving Stop
Sublimate Substitute Suppress Symbolize
Tantalize Tarnish Thwart Thought suppress
Trivialize Undereating Undo Upset
Using drugs Vacillate Venerate Veto
Vilify Wane Waver Weaken
Withdraw Worship Wound