Learn five basic ways to deal with a problem. The DBT Skills on this video platform will give you the tools that you need to deal effectively with problems.
1. Stay miserable
2. Make things worse by acting ways that may lead to negative consequences now or in the future.
3. Problem solve the situation
4. Change how you feel about the problem by changing your interpretation or changing the emotion through opposite-action.
5. Practice acceptance of the problem.
Learn about the primary emotions and the ways that we experience emotions, associated action urges, and the gifts of those emotions. Learn about happiness, sadness, anger, fear, shame, guilt, jealousy, envy, disgust, and love.
Learn the general way that emotions work. Learn things that keep emotions around for a long time and behaviors that reactivate emotions.