Denial
* barrier that prohibits cures, healing, help, and salvation of every kind.
* can be the fatal aspect of addiction.
* common feeling for sexual assault and rape survivors
  - psychological response to impending uncontrollable disaster
  - stance for adolescent diabetics
* defense mechanism that allows the neurobiological compulsion to be released.
* hallmark of addiction.
* helps people adjust to illness.
* human response to any crisis.
* is also a strong factor in many abortions.
* is an insidious situation that generally results in personal destruction
  - interpersonal process, requiring the participation of others
  - assertions
  - defense mechanisms
  - one natural mechanism that humans have to deal with an excess of anxiety and fear
* is one of the hallmarks of addiction
  - most potent of human ego defense mechanisms
  - part of the disease of alcoholism
  - present, to some extent or another, in all addictions
  - resistance to change
  - speech acts
  - statements
* is the avoidance of death's inevitability
  - common denominator in every chemically dependent family
  - evil that pulls toward one's hell, and lost amid self chaos
  - furthest point a person can be from being completely integrated into another culture
* is the hallmark symptom of a substance abuse disorder
  - mental process of erasing from consciousness the false beliefs
  - psychological state in which one feels exempt from reality
  - refusal to acknowledge the truth or reality of an event or relationship or whatever
  - usually the first state of coping with loss
* lie to oneself.
* major component of the substance abuse personality
  - part of the alcoholism disease
* means to refuse to accept the reality of the traumatic event, illness or death.
* natural first stage in the process of endings.
* normal and natural response for coping with painful and overwhelming problems
  - stage of grief
* often shows up in people's daydreams and fantasies.
  * is usually the first state of coping with loss. For example, if someone close to a person dies, the survivor's first feeling might be denial, or refusal to accept the fact that the person is really dead.
* part of grief.
* plays a major role in telephobia.
* problem facing both advocates of social justice and ecopsychologists.
* protective emotion when a life event is too overwhelming to deal with all at once.
* refusal to accept something as reality.
* way to ignore or dismiss the idea of addiction and avoid seeing a problem.

### denial:

Disclaimer
* are repudiation.
* have a tendency to strongly resemble either whining or lying.
* is an electronic information delivery service.
  * All that said, I am willing to extend a final chance. Disclaimer applies here too

Negative
* are denial
  - films
  - very often the result of man's misguided actions
* is denial

### denial | negative:

Cold agglutinin
* are negative.
* cause agglutination of the red cells as the blood cools.

### denial | negative:

False negative
* are common in pregnancy tests taken during the early weeks
  - more common in younger women than in older women
  - undesirable test outcomes as such individuals are missclassified
* can lead to undetected heart disease.
* increase risk of the child's disablitiy becoming worse.
* occur more often with younger women than with older women.
* occur when mammograms appear normal even though breast cancer is actually present
  - no eggs have been shed into the sample presented
  - test results appear normal even though cancer is actually present

Negative amortization
* can occur in certain types of adjustable rate mortgages.
* is when the loan balance increases rather than decreases.
* means the mortgage balance is increasing.
* occurs when monthly payments fail to cover the interest cost
  - tail to cover the interest cost

Negative control
* is associated with repression.
* refers to disinfection , antisepsis and sterilization.