{"id":6695,"date":"2020-04-10T10:29:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T16:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2024-03-05T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:25:30","slug":"how-can-dbt-help-you-manage-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/how-can-dbt-help-you-manage-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can DBT Help You Manage Anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In this time of anxiety and fear of the\nunknown, it is so easy to get wrapped up in what &#8220;could be.&#8221; What if\nyou get in a car accident? What if a loved one passes away? What if you lose\nyour job?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Getting lost in these emotions and the thoughts\nthat accompany them can create a world of chaos inside your mind. However, the\nanxiety, fear, hopelessness, loss, or whatever emotion you are feeling, will\ncome and go-much like the waves of the sea \u2013 if we let them.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/dialectical-behavior-therapy\/\">Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)<\/a> teaches\nskills to manage our distress in the moment to regulate our emotions and\nprocess them effectively. &#8220;The DBT skills are nicely packaged skills that\nhelp people manage the intensity of their feelings and modify their behaviors\nto create new experiences,&#8221; says Craig Simpson, LCSW and Senior Clinical\nDirector at Sunrise RTC.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The mindfulness and distress tolerance skills teach people with <a href=\"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/anxiety\/\">anxiety<\/a> how to set aside the worries of the past or future so they can live in the present.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>One of these distress tolerance skills is Activities,\nContribute, Compare, Emotions, Push Away, Thoughts, and Sensations, or ACCEPTS;\neach letter in the acronym gives a quick solution to distract from overwhelming\nemotions. The ACCEPTS skill is used to temporarily distract us from our\nemotions in order for us to tolerate a difficult situation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/accepts_info.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/accepts_info_graphic-410x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ACCEPTS - A Distress Tolerance Skill\" class=\"wp-image-6698\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Click to <a href=\"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/accepts_info.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"download the PDF. (opens in a new tab)\">download the PDF.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this time of anxiety and fear of the unknown, it is so easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,6],"tags":[165,10,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8214,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/8214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}