Roger has recently gone through a divorce and refuses to talk about it with anyone despite encouragement from family and friends. How might his reaction be labeled?

Denial is a coping mechanism that fives an individual time to adjust to distressing situations; it involves refusing to acknowledge something is wrong as a way of coping with emotional conflict, stress, painful thoughts or even anxiety. When in denial one wont acknowledge a difficult situation, one will try not to face the facts of a problem and one always downplays possible consequences of the issue.