When I first moved to Ky from Ca, the 2nd winter we had an ice storm & I was alone with my 6 dogs & no generator until 2 days into it so I could at least use my 2 burner heating utinsel & charge my phone. I actually had a full blown panic attack in the middle of the night when I couldn't shower because my propane ran out at the same time the electric went out. It was only a week without electric. I has never lived alone in my whole life before moving to Ky at the age of 54. I think the panic attack hit because earlier that day I had been out hiking actoss my icy field, climbing over my neighbors fence & feeding his 20 horses. I was sweating & came into my unheated house. Wrapped myself up but was so chilled & wet I started going into hypothermia until I forced myself to change into dry cloths. That night it hit me how serious the condition really was. There are some survival situations that naturally bring out the psnic & anxiety. Sometimes we just have to acknowledge it, understand it, & accept it. It will pass as the situation passes.

Actually the skills in the distress tolersnce section of DBT are to get you through a distressing situation.....wise mind is the processing of your emotional & logical mind & that lets us process the source of the anxiety & helps us talk ourselves through what happened & how we felt & why the situation caused us to feel that way....in other words processing what happened....integration of past experiences also helps in understanding why we react the way we do & with understanding it can lessen the actual reaction we have in the future.