All primary callers experience what we call "avoidance behavior". It always happens, even though the shape of it is always different. We typically see one of five types of avoidance:

1. Situational Avoidance (fight or flight).
2. Cognitive Avoidance (refusing to talk about an issue, or blocking out a memory altogether).
3. Protective Avoidance (Excessive safety behaviors such as perfectionism, cleaning, overprepping, procrastination).
4. Somatic Avoidance (tight chest, dizziness, out of breath).
5. Substitution avoidance (feeling angry when you should be feeling sad, etc).