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Are you highly sensitive? And do you struggle with very intense emotions that sometimes overwhelm you? Today, for the first episode of The Skillful Podcast, Marielle will be talking to Ed Fowler, who works with her at the Bay Area DBT and Couples Counseling Center, providing individual DBT therapy, skills group, ACT, and EMDR for the treatment of trauma. In today's episode, Ed and Marielle will be discussing the concept of emotional dysregulation. Listen in to find out more.
Today, Ed and Marielle define emotional dysregulation and they talk about what it feels like to live with really intense emotions. They also discuss the bio-social theory of the foundational concept in DBT. Tune in today, to discover ways to reduce your emotional suffering, improve your relationships, and become more present in your life.
Show Highlights:
Sometimes, our emotions can become so overwhelming that it leads to a sense of numbness. Some people who relate to being emotional dysregulated know what they're feeling all the time, while others are just overwhelmed and go to a place of numbness. Some people describe emotional dysregulation as being highly sensitive. There are lots of positive aspects to being very sensitive emotionally. It's easy for people who feel their emotions very strongly to become overwhelmed by them. Emotional dysregulation can be felt when our emotions become overwhelming and we don't know what to do with them. It can take a really long time for the extreme emotions to go away and this can cause a lot of suffering. It can be really difficult to focus on anything or get anything done when you're feeling these extreme emotions. Mood dependent behavior means that your current mood dictates what you're doing. People with strong emotions can tend to get into patterns of procrastination or avoidance and sometimes people can feel really stuck or trapped. Life becomes chaotic if your current emotion is dictating what you're doing, so that creates a challenging life. DBT offers really effective ways to express your emotions. DBT helps people feel better in a way that they won't regret the consequences of what they've done to make themselves feel better. Extreme emotions sometimes feel as if they will never go away. Judging yourself and feeling bad about feeling bad just makes things worse. With DBT you learn that things can change and you don't have to be a victim to your strong emotions. Other people might not understand the extreme emotional experience of a child and this could lead to the child being invalidated and developing patterns that do not work for them. This can cause confusion and a number of other problems for the child. There is almost always a sense of shame associated with either imploding or exploding. Ed explains why he really enjoys doing the work in DBT. Most people don't have good language around emotion. Any kind of childhood abuse is inherently invalidating and messes with the child's sense of reality. Caregivers who invalidate a child's intense emotions regularly can actually end up reinforcing more dramatic or explosive behavior in the child. A wide range of tools can help people to regulate their intense emotions. DBT teaches us that emotions are neither good or bad- they just give us information.Links:
You can find us online at https://bayareadbtcc.com/
For more information about DBT skills: https://www.guildord.com/author/Marsha-M_Linehan
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Please note that questions, and this podcast in general, are not a substitute for individual mental health treatment.
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Would you like to know more about DBT and where it all started? In today's episode, Marielle and Ed will be looking into the background and development of DBT. They will discuss dialectics and the concept of Wise Mind and give an introduction to mindfulness. Tune in to find out more.
Dialectics is about balancing two things that could be seen as opposite, yet also as true. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was created towards the end of the 1980s, by Marsha Linehan, who started out doing Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) with suicidal and self-harming clients. She later added the dialectical component to more effectively treat people experiencing intense emotional suffering.
Show Highlights:
Why Ed finds dialectics to be helpful for intense suffering. Ed defines the term 'dialectics'. Always balancing acceptance and change with dialectics. With dialectics, two opposing things can be true at the same time. Moving away from 'black-and-white' thinking. DBT has been effective in treating people with different kinds of emotional dysregulation. Wise mind is an ideal state, a work in progress, and an internal sense of doing the right thing, even if it's hard. Wise mind is the combination of our Emotion Mind and our Reasonable mind. What Emotion Mind looks like. What Reasonable Mind looks like. Wise Mind can lead us to that place of intuition or inspiration. There are many ways to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness helps us to access Wise Mind. Ed gives a mindfulness breathing exercise to help you to access Wise Mind. Mindfulness is the foundational skill of DBT. The mindfulness that is practiced in DBT isn't meditation. What is mindfulness? Depression lives in the past. Much of our distress comes from focusing on the past or the future and not on the present moment. Mindfulness allows for choice. Mindfulness is both external and internal. Dealing with some of the problems with practicing mindfulness.Resource:
Book by Marsha Linehan - DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets
Links:
You can find us online at https://bayareadbtcc.com/
Ask Us a Question!We’d love to hear from you! Where are you getting stuck with your skills application? Ask us a question for the chance to have it answered on the podcast. Submit your question here.
Please note that questions, and this podcast in general, are not a substitute for individual mental health treatment.
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This episode is the 2nd part of an overview of the Emotion Regulation skills in DBT, focusing on skills that can help you be in Emotion Mind less often. You can find part 1 here.
The skills discussed in this episode may not have an immediate impact on how you’re feeling, but regular application of these skills over time builds emotional resilience and flexibility.
DBT Skills DiscussedAccumulating Positive Emotions in the Short-Term
Accumulating Positive Emotions in the Long-Term
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The Emotion Regulation skills in DBT offer lots of ways to help you identify and respond to emotions. Some of the Emotion Regulation skills focus on change, while others focus on acceptance. This toggling back and forth between acceptance and change is the primary dialectic we are continually balancing in DBT.
This episode provides an overview of the Emotion Regulation skills as a whole, and takes a deep dive into change-oriented strategies such as Check the Facts, Opposite Action, and Problem Solving.
For full show notes, visit our website.
Ask us a QuestionWe’d love to hear from you! Where are you getting stuck with your skills application? Ask us a question for the chance to have it answered on the podcast. Submit your question here.
Please note that questions, and this podcast in general, are not a substitute for individual mental health treatment.
