chrmad, Hello and welcome to PC. It is nice to meet you. You ask some very specific questions that might be best researched or addressed by a professional. I am not a therapist so here are a couple links that may help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compart...on_(psychology)

Suppress | Define Suppress at Dictionary.com

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