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Originally Posted by ECHOES
What is the difference between emotional regulation and denying or stuffing emotions, or even rationalizing?
Emotional regulation souns to me like, If you feel it, don't show it.
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Perhaps an analogy will shed some light on your question
(or if darkness, then at least interesting darkness 
). Suppose we were talking not about emotions but about riding a bicycle. The equivalent of emotional regulation would be keeping your balance and rolling down the road in the direction you wanted to go. Denying, stuffing or rationalizing would be like picking out a soft-looking place to fall and aiming for it, or hanging onto a signpost and not going anywhere.
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Regulate how? And with what?
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I probably couldn't tell you (nor you tell me)
how to ride a bicycle; it's something you pick up by practicing. The dbtselfhelp site that bloom3 posted the link to, offers some suggestions for practicing.