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Old Feb 20, 2019, 06:50 PM
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Originally Posted by unaluna View Post
This was indeed wisely in response to a direct request. Im sorry it was not recognized as such. In my experience, assertiveness training that i took 40 years ago was not as effective to my underdeveloped self as was my more recent DBT training. Even something seemingly as simple as saying "No!" felt overwhelming at first.
I don't see it as such. Advice for one person is not necessarily for another. Sometimes the best course of action is to acknowledge when a piece of advice is no good for one's own self.
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