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When acceptance practice conflicts with mental health safety

I keep reading that I should accept what is but my what is includes wanting to hurt myself and that feels dangerous to accept.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The instruction to accept present experience becomes confusing when that experience includes self-destructive impulses requiring intervention.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mindfulness as psychological intervention?”

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