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    DBT for Private Practice ERwkst1.

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    Emotion Regulation versus Emotion Tolerance


    Feeling Words

    Love Compassion Amusement Glumness


    Fear Surprise Cheerfulness Sorrow
    Sadness Lust Pleasure Gloom
    Anxiety Apathy Delight Pride
    Agony Passion Rapture Nervousness
    Dread Boldness Elation Thrill
    Defeat Tenderness Exasperation Distress
    Horror Shyness Hope Hope
    Despair Insecurity Grouchiness Astonishment
    Fright Curiosity Happiness Misery
    Adoration Suffering Jealousy Bashfulness
    Worry Infatuation Isolation Grief
    Affection Pity Resentment Impatience
    Panic Like Anguish Hurt
    Attraction Neglect Outrage Intrigue
    Tenseness Sympathy Depression
    Caring Joy Neglect
    Apprehension Sentimentality Loneliness

    A: Feelings you don’t care either way about (you could take them or leave them)

    B: Feelings you like to have and seek out

    C: Feelings you hate to have and avoid at all costs

    D: Feelings you dislike and try to avoid, but don’t panic over

    E: Feelings you wish to increase and have more often

    © Thomas Marra/New Harbinger Publications 2005 1


    DBT for Private Practice ERwkst1.rtf

    In order to decrease emotional discomfort, you need to increase activities that bring those positive feelings
    you seek. As a first gesture toward problem solving, think of activities that formerly brought such feelings.
    Never mind that recently those activities no longer produce the feelings they used to. Just list them here. You
    will return to them later in the program, and this exercise will eventually assist you to feel less depressed.

    Activities that used to result in the feelings listed under B and E. (Examples: I used to go to social gatherings,
    ride my bike, watch movies with friends.)

    The obstacles or barriers to increasing the above activities. (Example: I wait until I feel like it, and I rarely feel
    like it any more.)

    Now deal with the feelings that you hate to have and would avoid at all costs (those listed under C). What
    horrible or lasting effect occurs when you experience these feelings? Do people die? Do your loved ones
    forever reject you? List below the horrible and lasting effects on your life when you feel these feelings:

    Now, in the list you just made above, attempt to discriminate between those feelings you prefer not to have, as
    opposed to those things that are really catastrophic and life-changing events. Which of your hated feelings
    actually causes you substantial and long-lasting emotional pain? Write them here:

    This exercise will help you to discriminate anticipatory fear from real consequences of your emotions. So much
    of what we anticipate is based on fear rather than reality. By discriminating between the two, you are more
    likely to eliminate artificial barriers to change. You will have considerable practice in the remainder of this
    program working through these general first observations.

    © Thomas Marra/New Harbinger Publications 2005 2

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