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Old Dec 12, 2009, 10:50 PM
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Speaking of anger, I've been wanting to run this quote by you guys. It seems right in line with what Brightheart was saying:
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Originally Posted by Elysium3006 View Post
One thing that we learn in DBT is that anger is considered a secondary emotion. It acts as a coping skill almost for other emotions such as fear, disgust, sorrow, to block a person from feeling these emotions.

So my anger I had towards it really wasn't anger at all, I learned. It was fear!! Fear of failure, fear of something new, and even the fear of getting better, because if I got better, then I wouldn't know who I was anymore. Who would I be without all these issues? It's a scary question for anybody.
(From Post #8 in DBT gives me PTSD, 05-31-2009)
Thanks for this!
BlueMoon6