i do dbt for depression. it's really not just for bpd anymore. i call it kindergarten for the emotions. it's like people my whole life have told me to do x or y and i'm like but how?! then i got into dbt and it slows things down, gets me to look at things. right now we're going through emotion regulation (i've been through dbt before, but i wanted to do it again for support). we have a chart for homework that helps us slow down and identify the emotion. for example, i tend to skip recognizing that i'm hurt and jump straight to anger. i'm angry and i don't know why. but if i slow down i can see that my *first* emotion was hurt and that i moved past it so fast i didn't really deal with it.

as for radical acceptance, that's actually my favorite dbt skill. it's the hardest one, but it's my fave

i'm sure it's been discussed, but radical acceptance isn't about liking the situation. it isn't about saying you aren't going to change the situation. it simply means, that in your core (that's where "radical" comes in) you recognize the situation you are in and you accept reality for what it is. you can't change reality if you're operating on how you wish things were instead of how they are.