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Originally Posted by growlycat
My CBT T is now bringing up DBT skills to self soothe. I told him that for everyday bumps and scrapes, taking a bath and lighting a candle are all well and good, but for EXTREME pain this stuff is useless.
It actually makes me angry reading the list of distraction tools. It does seem to minimize or make light up the severity of the pain.
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THANK YOU because every time I mention this stuff people in that DBT group are acting like this is some kind of religion I am offending. I don't have BPD, and went through childhood abuse....and im supposed to smell some candles and read a nice book and thats my therapy now. Again not invalidating people who this works for, but telling me to put a smiley face on and choose from a list of 200 things to distract myself with.....is offensive and invalidating to my feelings that are ahem, REAL
shame on them for pushing it on people it doesnt work on.
