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Area · Low mood and hard feelings

Focus, starting, and ADHD 253Anger 168Your body 160Low mood and hard feelings 81 Worry and anxiety 69

How long you have

A minute 11 Five minutes 44 Twenty minutes 19 Longer 7

Who it is written for

A practitioner 81 Me 74 Someone I care about 34 My husband or wife 17

Where you are right now · Struggling right now

Coping, mostly 96 Struggling right now 81 Getting ready for something 13

On your own, or with someone

On my own 65 Both of us together 11 Involves someone else 5

Theme

When everything feels flat 18 Shame 15 Tolerate distress 13 Emotions as signals 10 When you use something to cope 9 When you go numb 6 Question the thought 6 Letting it out safely 4

Approach

Emotionally focused 20 Medical and treatment 18 DBT skills 13 Trauma informed 11 Body based 6 CBT 6 Grief 4 Parts work 3

When

Any ordinary day 34 Under stress 27 After a row 11 In a change 5 Coming and going 2 When apart 2

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

There is more about low mood and hard feelings than the practices: the low mood and hard feelings area has the themes and the courses too.