Then there is an accompanying exercise and worksheet that will take you around 10 minutes to complete. You repeat the exercises that you find useful a few times a week until you feel like you have got what you need out of the lesson....
IMPROVE the Moment is a core Distress Tolerance skill. Actually, it’s a whole set of skills, one for each letter of IMPROVE. Each one is a practice that can help you feel better. Using the IMPROVE skills will reduce your distress, and even if they work just for a moment, you can ...
hope you will give it a try at first, until the skills become more natural. Antidepressant/UP Activities Depressant/DOWN Activities Based on the mood ratings you recorded on the Activity Monitoring Worksheet, determine which activities helped you to feel more positive (“UP” activities) and which...
life will get better and better. If we keep on keeping on, we’ll finally get through…passed…over…and around the boulders and obstacles in our recovery. That’s how people recover. They don’t give up…or they don’t give up for long!