A short video segment by Amber Hollingsworth explaining the 'minimizing' phase of denial, where individuals downplay serious negative events (e.g., fights, DUIs, job loss, missed family events, failing classes) by treating them as not a big deal and ignoring red flags.
The minimizing it phase. So in this phase of it, the person may acknowledge that, okay, you know, occasionally I drink too much, but who doesn't, right? It's saying, okay, yeah, that happened. But it's not really that big a deal because. And this can come out in sort of like, a number of ways, but it's any kind of thing that minimizes it. That takes something bad that happened. This is usually focused around something specifically bad that happened. A giant fight, a dui, a missed important special family event, a firing from a job, you know, flunking classes. This is usually the way that the person kind of pushes those bigger red flag signs out and ignores them. This is how denial works.
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