"self-interruption" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2017, Ladislav Timulak, James McElvaney, Transforming Generalized Anxiety: An emotion-focused approach, Taylor & Francis, page 123:",
          "text": "Self-interruption often shows in the form of various tensions through which clients attempt to limit potential felt-upset. They are literally tensing to brace themselves for the impact of the feared trigger or upsetting experience. Sometimes self-interruption appears in the context of other tasks, particularly empty chair tasks, in which clients engage in a dialogue with an imagined, significant other and are unable to stay with, or express, a particular experience out of the fear of the experience or the other’s imagined response.",
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          "ref": "2022, Michael M. Wagoner, Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 76:",
          "text": "What emotional self-interruptions do through affective means, manipulative self-interruptions achieve through suggesting missing logical connections whether accurate or fallacious.",
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          "ref": "2022, Gloria Mark, Multitasking in the Digital Age, Springer International Publishing, page 121:",
          "text": "A further interesting point was that when an individual experiences an external interruption in the preceding hours they significantly increase their chances of initiating a self-interruption in the subsequent hour.",
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          "text": "When trying to do focused work, studies show that self-interruptions occur at nearly the same frequency as external interruptions, except that we are less aware of them - a sign that we are acting on autopilot.",
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        "The act of self-interrupting."
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