Posts Tagged ‘Tolerate distress’
Tolerate Distress with Self-Soothing Thoughts
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches distress tolerance skills as a way to mindfully tolerate and move through uncomfortable thoughts, emotions, and sensations. Internal distress can feel overwhelming and unbearable at times, but reacting to distress by fighting or…
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Tolerate Distress with A-C-C-E-P-T-S
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.” – Thomas Merton Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers many useful approaches to…
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Top 10 Ways to Tolerate Distress
Distress. It is impossible to avoid, no matter how charmed your life may be. Emotional pain and distress are an inevitable part of life. The inability to learn how to effectively cope with intense emotion and distress only leads to increased suffering. According to Dr. Marsha Linehan, a world-renowned psychologist credited with the creation of…
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