My therapist says I need to practice distress tolerance but when my boyfriend doesn't text me back for two hours I feel like I am literally dying and I have called him seventeen times today.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between intellectual understanding of coping skills and the overwhelming intensity of abandonment panic reveals how dysregulation hijacks rational thought.
“Where Are You with DBT for emotional dysregulation?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.