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Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet
On this page, we will provide you with Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet. It will help you to distract yourself from harmful situations.
What is Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) aims at teaching its clients different "Self-Help Activities.” So, whenever they face difficult situations, they don’t let the problem take control of them. Instead, they take control of the situation by keeping in check their own emotions and reactions. Distraction techniques are all such techniques that can help you to focus on something else when you’re in a panicked, anxious, or distressed state.
How Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet will help?
DBT makes you self-sufficient when it comes to dealing with negative emotions and stressful situations. It will help you to distract the stressful situations by using ACCEPTS.
| Activities | Do hobbies, watch videos, go for walks, play sports, cook, garden, go fishing, and go shopping. |
| Contributing | Do volunteer work. Babysit so a friend can go out. Do something nice or surprising for someone. |
| Comparisons | you compare yourself to others' suffering, watch weepy soap operas, read about disasters. Some people find this helpful; others don't. Just do what works for you. |
| Emotions | Read inspirational books, go to emotional movies, listen to emotional music. To work, you need to read or watch or listen to things that have an emotion opposite to what you feel. |
| Pushing away | They are pushing Away a distressing situation by leaving it mentally for a while. |
| Thoughts | ways of distracting with thoughts are reading, watching videos or movies, doing crossword puzzles or jigsaw puzzles, |
| Sensations | Any strong physical stimulus like this can kind of jog lose your connection to your pain and distract you from it. |
Instructions on how to use the Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet
Use this worksheet whenever you feel that you are in a stressful situation.
You can download this worksheet here.
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Conclusion
On this page, we provided you with a Distress Tolerance Handout #1: Distracting Worksheet which hopefully helped you to distract yourself from harmful conditions.
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