- Mindfulness
- Distress Tolerance
- Emotional Regulation
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
Well. I didn't get that far (yet) with my explorations into mindfulness, but I was just thinking last night - perhaps the two biggies for me are actually distress tolerance and emotional regulation.
Maybe I'm just trying to squirm out of figuring my way through mindfulness. I don't know. Just in the past few weeks, I hadn't really felt that gripped by getting really into exploring mindfulness. Mind you, in the past three weeks I've had two really bad weekends with my partner, so perhaps mindfulness might have helped prevented that, had I been exercising it.
Anyway. Let's get back to distress tolerance. Distress tolerance is identified as a DBT crises coping skill. It seems that distress tolerance can be enhanced in a number of ways: distraction, self soothing, improving the moment, thinking of pros and cons.
I guess it would be a really good thing for me to read up on these strategies, and to somehow, maybe with the help of my partner, come up with some kind of an 'emotional crises first aid kit' - something we could dip into in an "emergency". A strategy, or set of options that we could reach for in times of need.
To me right now, the best two of those distraction strategies (the ones that sound like they might work the best for me) seem to be self soothing and improving the moment. So I think that over my next few posts here, I might aim to delve into those two aspects of utilising distraction as a way to deal with times of emotional crisis.
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