Showing all posts tagged #dbt:
'Could there be another reason for this behaviour?'
Posted on March 24th, 2017
This one comes from DBT. It is a technique that allows you to think of other interpretations of people's behaviour, in order to calm yourself down when you get strangely extreme emotions about someone's behaviour towards you that you interpreted as neg...
Dissociation
Posted on March 24th, 2017
People learn fast. It is a well known effect of a traumatic experience that cannot be escaped (e.g. rape): dissociation. A person escapes inside their head because they cannot escape physically. Is an abusive childhood a traumatic experience that canno...
Digging inside yourself pays off
Posted on March 19th, 2017
I don't know if it is a long lasting effect of Vipassana, or the fact that I have actually decided that I do want to get better. Cross that out, I want to recover, regardless of what it takes.
Nothing happens without a reason. Stupid Bollywood movie a...
Freaking out in relationships
Posted on March 17th, 2017
That is one problem that has been bothering me a lot - when I get into a relationship I very soon start getting paranoid that this person does not care or that they will leave me and then I start freaking out - which is making the relationship impossib...
Emotional Freedom Techniques EFT - my beginnings
Posted on February 20th, 2017
I found out about it only recently - methods how to release emotions that we have the tendency to suppress, and this suppressing is creating situations in our lives that constantly bring those negative emotions back. Acting the emotion out is also a fo...
Anger and withdrawal
Posted on December 10th, 2016
Part of DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is learning about the core emotions and their functions, so that later one is able to spot a malfunction. It makes you feel very stupid at the beginning, when the therapist asks you to explain what is fear, wh...
