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Originally Posted by Maranara
The important thing for the DBT and meditation to work is to practice it everyday regardless of whether you feel you need it or not. After a while, you'll start feeling better and you'll tell yourself that you don't need it anymore and you'll be okay and you'll basically stop. Then, the feelings will come back and all the coping techniques you learned from it are basically down the drain. That's where I am right now. When I was in basically a crisis state, I did them religiously all the time and then it passed and I'm trying to rediscover it because my hyper anxious/constantly thinking state that could easily reach that point is in the process of coming back.
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Thank you for this. I understand. I think that's the way I am with everything. Take food for example. I practice eating well, track my calories and food on Myfitnesspal.com, start feeling good, start losing a little weight then, when I'm depressed I use food to self-soothe and it all goes out the window. This happens every time so that I'm in a constant 5 lb up-and-down weight fluctuation. I'm terrible with food though; it seems to be my best way to self-soothe (but then I feel badly about myself in the long run so I guess not).
Anyway, I hear what you're saying. And I appreciate the resources you gave me. Thanks for that, too.