Goals of Distress Tolerance
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The purpose of Distress Tolerance skills is to assist you in surviving crisis situations, accepting reality, and becoming free.
The goal is to survive crises without making them worse. Easier said than done, by the way. That's where practice comes in.
Too often we get "stuck" and our suffering continues. The skills addressed in Distress Tolerance will assist in moving forward.
It gets tiring meeting the demands of our desires, urges, and intense emotions. Utilizing Distress Tolerance skills, we can free ourselves from the burden of appeasing these needs.
The goal is to survive crises without making them worse. Easier said than done, by the way. That's where practice comes in.
Too often we get "stuck" and our suffering continues. The skills addressed in Distress Tolerance will assist in moving forward.
It gets tiring meeting the demands of our desires, urges, and intense emotions. Utilizing Distress Tolerance skills, we can free ourselves from the burden of appeasing these needs.