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Originally Posted by gelfling
i am either going to stuff them and dive back into my life and my career putting my emotional head in the sand until it kills me - or i am going to deal with this stuff for once and work on how to handle them
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unfortunately, putting your head in the sand will only work for a limited amount of time...it will implode eventually. If only this emotional stuff was that easy to be rid of...
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Originally Posted by gelfling
but you know when you feel an emotional storm coming? get that dark sense that you are going to lose control, lose your mind? I feel that constantly right now....
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YES. You really need to pay attention to this. You instinctively know what's coming.
I tried DBT several times. I'm not going to trash it, because it does wonders for a lot of people. It never came close to working for me. Maybe it was just over my head, or maybe bad T's, IDK, but the few DBT T's I had were very similar to what you're mentioning. I couldn't bring up what I was feeling emotionally, it was always "use your skills"...and I would be "wtf? what skills, I got no skills". The goal of DBT is to make you deal on your own, but when you are in a ton of emotional turmoil you just can't do that, and you can't grasp the "skills" either.