DBT Definitions

2. emotion-driven state largely without logic.
4. training which is a core part of DBT that teaches people alternative ways of interacting with themselves and the world.
6. being close to doing what is needed and choosing to act on one's own desires and impulses regardless of its effectiveness.
8. being open to doing what is needed in any given moment.
11. a valid emotion that does not fit the context.
12. logic-driven state largely without emotion.
14. doing what is contrary to the urge of the emotion that is experience which is used to decrease the intensity of or change the emotion.
15. a valid emotion that fits the context.
16. from a DBT perspective, just about everything one does, thinks, feels, or identifies as.
17. a mindfulness what skill in which one puts words to the experience in a nonjudgemental way.
18. acknowledging reality fully by choosing to radically accept something over and over until it becomes a part of you, not necessarily liking a situation.
19. a mindfulness how skill in which one focuses on what works and what helps the long-term, not the short-term.
20. acknowledging an emotion (and sometimes thoughts) is acceptable.
22. emotions are easily triggered.
23. a mindfulness how skill in which one does one thing at a time.
25. two ideas or things that appear to be polar opposites but that can co-exist.

1. bringing awareness to oneself and one's surroundings in the moment with the goal of increasing emotional regulation and operating in wisemind.
3. a balance of emotion and reasonable minds, emphasizing that all information is taken into consideration.
5. emotional reaction is extreme to any given trigger.
7. a core understanding of chronic emotion dysregulation that is based on the biology of high sensitivity, high reactivity, and a slow return to baseline in interaction with an invalidating environment.
9. the individual takes longer than the norm to return to an emotional baseline.
10. a mindfulness what skill in which one fully engages in an experience or activity with the goal of losing yourself.
13. a mindfulness how skill in which one has a lack of evaluation by focusing on the objective facts.
21. finding balance among extremes.
24. a mindfulness what skill in which one notices the experience or situation without holding onto or pushing away reactions.