Defense mechanisms
A) make a person feel more anxious and have more problems, because they begin to act defensively.
B) are strategies the id uses to try to achieve what it desires.
C) help a person feel less anxious, but because they usually work by distorting reality, they are not
always adaptive.
D) are conscious, intentional attempts to cope in an effective way with an anxiety provoking event.
C
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