Distress Tolerance is a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) selfhelp skill to help people cope with feelings like anger, depression and anxiety.
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~ Distress tolerance is a natural progression from mindfulness~ Accepting, nonjudgmentally, oneself and the situation~ Not trying to change the situation, your feelings, thoughts or urges~ Distress tolerance means surviving crises, accepting life as it is in the moment.Tolerance and acceptance of reality do not equate with approvalProving How Bad It Is~ Sometimes people so want others to understand how bad it is they focus on that instead of surviving the situation~ Short Term Gains (Look what you made me do)~ Controlling another’s behavior~ Going to the hospital and getting attention/break~ Long Term Benefits~ ??~ Have clients remember a time they acted out to try to get someone to see how bad it was. What were the results?Distress Intolerance Thoughts~ I can’t stand this~ It’s unbearable~ I hate this feeling~ I must stop this feeling~ I must get rid of it~ Take it away~ I can’t cope with this feeling~ I will lose control~ I’ll go crazy~ This feeling will keep going on forever~ It is wrong to feel this way~ It’s stupid and unacceptable~ It’s weak~ It’s bad~ It’s dangerousAvoidance BehaviorsUrge Surfing~ Urges are generally intense for 2030 minutes~ Every time you have an urge think, “I have a choice!†~ Surf the urge by opening yourself up to the urge. This doesn’t mean that you consume yourself in it (which feels horrible) or fight it and push it away. What you do is experience the feeling of the urge with acceptance, nonjudgement, and be sensitively aware that it is there.STOP Skills~ Stop~ Take a step back~ Observe~ Proceed MindfullyPros and Cons~ What are the benefits to acting on impulsive urges?~ What are the drawbacks to acting on impulsive urges?~ What are the benefits to __[insert the skill] __~ What are the drawbacks to __[insert the skill] __TIP Skills~ Temperature~ Intense Exercise~ Paced Breathing~ Paired Muscle Relaxation~ The act of muscle relaxation is paired with a verbal cue~ What reactions do you have that are paired with verbal cues?Distract with Wise Mind ACCEPTS~ Activities (pleasant)~ Contributing~ Comparisons~ Emotions (opposite)~ Pushing Away~ Think about something totally different~ 4 3 2 1~ What did you used to do on long car trips?SelfSoothing~ Body Scan Meditation~ SelfSoothing Using the 5 Senses~ Sight~ Smell~ Hearing~ Touch~ TasteIMPROVE the Moment~ Imagery~ Safe place~ Successfully dealing with this~ A force field~ A coach/fairy godmother/angel~ Feelings and thoughts are clouds in the sky~ An unstoppable train~ Meaning~ Changing how you think about yourself and your situation~ Make lemonade. Find the silver lining.~ Prayer~ RelaxationIMPROVE the Moment~ One thing in the Moment~ Focus on one thing you are doing right now~ Sitting in a chair~ Driving~ Weeding~ Vacation~ Mental vacation~ Take a short break~ Leave stress at work~ Encouragement~ Be your best friend~ Create a mental coachReality Acceptance~ Radical Acceptance~ Complete and total acceptance of the facts of reality~ Turning the mind~ Mentally looking to the other sideReality Acceptance~ Seeing Emotions Differently~ Fear and anger kick in when there is a threat~ Sadness kicks in when you lose something important to you in some way, If you didn’t feel sadness when these things occurred, it would mean that nothing was important.Negative emotions are important to survival, rather than something to be feared and avoided at all costsReality Acceptance~ Willingness vs. Willfulness~ Willfulness forgets, ignores or actively tries to change, master, direct, control or manipulate what is~ Willingness is a surrendering to a process in which one is already a partReality Acceptance~ Half Smiling and Willing Hands~ Emotions are partially controlled by facial expressions.~ Half smiling with lips slightly upturned~ Hands are unclenched, palms up, fingers relaxed~ Mindfulness of current thoughts~ Recognize that thoughts are just neural firing in the brain, not facts about the world~ Allow the thoughts to come and fade
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