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When grief overwhelms all DBT coping strategies

I have been working on emotion regulation for months but when my dog died last week I cried so hard I vomited and could not function for three days.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Profound loss can create such intense emotional flooding that all learned coping strategies become temporarily irrelevant in the face of raw human suffering.

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“Where Are You with DBT for emotional dysregulation?”

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