Denial is when we pretend something isn’t happening, and deliberately don’t think about it.  Humans do it a lot. ‘No, I don’t have a drinking problem.’ ‘I’m not stressed, just a bit busy at work’. ‘I’m fine. I feel great’. Why do we go into denial?  How do we stop? Is denial sometimes useful?

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