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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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Tolerate distress Longer Under stress Clear all

Theme · Tolerate distress

When everything feels flat 1 Tolerate distress 1

How long you have · Longer

A minute 4 Five minutes 5 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 1 Under stress 1

When a feeling is genuinely unbearable, escaping it is the only regulator you have, so the drinking or the shutting down is doing a job. Build up what you can bear and the job disappears.

It helps to stop asking why you keep reaching for the thing and start asking what state you were in just before you reached. Usually it is a…

LongerTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 41:49