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Emotion Regulation Hack: Primary & Secondary Emotions

From Borderline to Beautiful: Hope and Help for BPD with Rose Skeeters, MA, LPC, PN2

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How to Stay in a Primary Emotional State

A primary emotion is the initial emotional reaction that occurs in a situation. Secondary emotions produce problem focused thinking, negative behaviors and you guessed it negative outcomes. So what we want to do is figure out how to stay in that primary emotive state. The goal is to learn to identify your emotions, label your emotions, change your physical state to bring down the intensity of the emotion.

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