How to Deal with Negative Emotions - Distress Tolerance

The video discusses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) as a treatment for various mental health conditions. It focuses on distress tolerance, a DBT technique for managing emotions by accepting them without resorting to harmful coping mechanisms. The video explains how emotions like sadness, anger, and fear are natural and should be processed mindfully. It highlights maladaptive coping strategies such as avoidance and numbing and introduces a mindfulness exercise to help viewers observe and accept their emotions without judgment.

What does it mean to accept a distressing emotion instead of escaping it?

Explain the mindfulness exercise suggested for processing emotions.

How can observing emotions change the way they affect us?