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Originally Posted by Rapunzel
In DBT terms, once again, there is a balance between acceptance vs. change strategies. Quite a touchy one. Validation of the way that things are is helpful to a point, but validation that "yes, you are passive and helpless and weak" would turn out to be invalidating.
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I'd say that what makes DBT "dialectical" in the first place is that the therapist would probably pick up not only on "you feel passive and helpless and weak" but also on "it seems to you that acting passive and helpless and weak is what you have to do to stay safe" and "you don't entirely want to keep feeling that way".