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eskielover · May 21, 2021, 08:17 AM

@Bill3, yes, mindfulness is one of the best tools I ever learned in my 2 intense years of DBT.

@Alive99....I knew I was feeling intense anger but for me, my other feelings & reasons for those feelings were repressed more because I didn't have the words to express them. One day I went to my weekly therapy appointment & my T asked how I was feeling. All I could say was "ugh, just ugh!" She then handed me 3 pages with a list of feelings words for me to check off the ones that related to what I was experiencing. That was my first step to breakthrough. The next step I took on my own was to put words to the feelings as to what was their cause. That broke the word barrier for me & from that point we continues to work through how I was really feeling. That was about 7 years ago & now when I am feeling overloaded, I step back & am able to analize what I am feeling & exactly why.

Mindfulness helped me do important changes in my coping skills & also be more aware of how my environment (or more, an external environment that keeps hitting me) if effecting me & how I am responding to it & what I can do better to handle it.