DBT Skills for Healthier Relationships
DBT SkillsHow we're getting along with other people has everything to do with how we feel about ourselves and with how our emotions are doing in general. There really are so many people who are sad and depressed or socially anxious where they really do feel lonely or when they do have relationships they're full of conflict and stress and breakups, lots of ups and downs. Turns out when you have high levels of emotional dysregulation, it has dramatic effects on relationships. It is a little bit of a chicken and egg where sometimes if you're emotionally dysregulated, it adversely affects your relationships.
And if you're unskillful interpersonally, it's gonna affect your emotion regulation capacity. People who are sort of the more shame prone people, they're unlovable, you know, they sort of turn into these kind of meek people who find it really hard to say no to things, stand up for themselves in any way. And then we've got people who maybe are a little bit more on the angry side of things. They don't trust other people. They try to push people away even.
A lot of their interactions with people might be pretty harsh. The skills within the interpersonal effectiveness module can really offer so much to people that are struggling in their relationships or don't have enough satisfying relationships. They're skills that teach us to really take care of and maintain good relationships and build them as well as teaching how to say no and have your no stick.