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Aug 13, 2024 - 8 Ways to Help You Avoid Emotional Exhaustion
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August 13, 2024
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8 Ways to Help You Avoid Emotional Exhaustion
We all experience some kind of stress every day and that is normal.
To some extent, being stressed shows us that we care and we want things to go the best way possible.
Where we can, we will do everything in our power to minimise the stress, but in some cases, things are above us, and all we have to do is wait and hope they get better.
Unfortunately, when we are exposed to extensive stress over long periods, we become mentally and physically exhausted.
This is referred to as emotional exhaustion.
Emotional exhaustion does not happen overnight, it takes time and slowly builds up. Our mind gets tired, and just like we have a hard time using our muscles when we're tired, we'll also experience difficulties when we're emotionally exhausted.
Some common signs of emotional exhaustion include…
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What's Distress Tolerance? 5 Skills to Help Manage Your Distress Through DBT
American philosopher William James once said, “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
This doesn’t mean avoiding distress or unpleasant emotions in life. In fact, experiencing negative emotions or events is something everyone goes through at one point in time or another.
“Distress tolerance” is all about learning to manage your response to a situation. In truth, we can’t control every situation that we meet. But we can control our reaction and how we process or cope.
Distress tolerance skills are actually rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is a type of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).
So, let’s dive in!
What should you know about distress tolerance?
How can you use it to manage any distress in your life? …
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