Introduction to Overcoming Anxiety, Depression and Other Emotional Challenges
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Learning how to overcome life’s most challenging emotional experiences is important for being able to create the life you want to live. In this track, you will learn how to deal with intense emotions, anxiety, depression, and loss. You will learn effective ways that you can alleviate your struggles without making things worse in the long run by using problematic coping strategies.
For this track, pick the collection that you struggle with the most and start there. Then move on to the next one that is impacting you the most and so on. Watch the videos in the order they are presented and take notes. You may want to view the videos multiple time to make sure that you fully grasp the information. Then, the most important step is to make a commitment to implement the skills into your life. Go slowly so that the skills can stick. The more commitment you have to implementing the skills into your life, the better your results will be.
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Introduction to Overcoming Anxiety, Depression & Other Emotional Challenges
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Overview & Tour of Overcoming Anxiety, Depression, & Other Emotional Challenges
View this overview and tour of the Overcoming Anxiety, Depression and Other Emotional Challenges track. Learn about the track and how to best navigate the content.
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Dealing with Anxiety - Five Tips
Learn five ways to deal with anxiety. Video originally filmed as a commercial.
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Self-Soothing
The DBT Self-Soothe skills help you to nurture and soothe yourself when you are experiencing an intense emotion. These skills can also be used as important self care techniques to reduce stress.
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IMPROVE the Moment
The DBT IMPROVE skills help to intentionally increase positives in a situation. This skill is part of the DBT Distress Tolerance module and can help you to effectively deal with distressing emotions by improving the moment.
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Gratitude Practice
Gratitude is a great way to lift mood and improve the moment. Setting up a regular gratitude practice is an effective way to bring greater positivity into your life and to combat depression and low mood.