Suppression is a strategy used by the mind, a defense mechanism, to avoid thoughts that can be uncomfortable or annoying when an emotional dilemma arises. Psychology uses the word "suppression" to refer to an adaptive or defense mechanism by which the person faces their emotional conflicts and threats of an external and internal nature, intentionally avoiding thinking about those desires, problems, experiences or feelings that cause discomfort, or that it contained them and did not allow them to express themselves without the use of repression.
In this sense, this mechanism allows man to avoid those behaviors or situations that can lead to the satisfaction of his needs to the detriment or enslavement of others. This can be seen, for example, in the case of someone who decides not to think about sexuality in the workplace, as it can bring risks within the workplace, to the point of losing their source of employment.
Therefore, through deletion, the person exercises specific control over himself. The power of suppression can be especially effective in a given context. For example, to combat negative thinking. In that case, the person can train the conscious habit of exchanging a negative thought for a positive one that is alternative and whose message is more hopeful.
Running away from problems and fears does not solve them. In the same way, in the case of suffering a certain fear, one can practice the exercise of stopping in thought, that is, leaving the mind blank to free the mind from worries and recover positive energy. Every human being struggles with his own fears and insecurities.
However, suppression is not the magic potion of human happiness because there are experts who also point out the risks that you may have to turn your back on a certain reality, since those thoughts that you want to ignore, can sometimes emerge with even more force.. As with repression, everything that is repressed may tend to surface even more strongly, for example, in dreams.
In the same way, there is talk of deleting parts that are not vital for the development of an oral presentation, in addition to the elimination of certain elements of the texts; The best example of this can be seen in the editions of certain books, where certain chapters are deleted, since they are only dedicated to addressing issues about the environment and the psychology of the characters.
