
20. How To: Survive a Crisis Without Making It Worse
Therapists In The Wild
Distress Tolerance Skills Work So Well.
When arousal is really extreme and the problem can't be solved immediately, these are the skills to use. If you take a test and you feel like you failed it, if you have a conversation with somebody and your urge might be to fix it, say something about it,. But yeah, that might make it worse. You know, what about just like, you're really overwhelmed and you don't have time to regulate your emotions, get into wise mind, do all those things? They work so well. We love distress tolerance. And the good thing about distress tolerance skills is that they work. I think similarly, oftentimes, we just can't solve a problem that we really want to
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