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• Describe your friend's experience (remember, remove all judgment thoughts; just the raw experience).  What were your friend's judgment thoughts?  What emotions might she have been feeling?
   
• You learn that a close child (friend or family), who loves gymnastics and has trained very hard just won first place in a competition.  When you congratulate them, they seem depressed or despondent.  You ask her why she seems blue and she tells you that her best friend came in second place.
  
  What emotions might she be feeling?  What might her primary or secondary emotions be?
   

Assignments

If you don't already have a journal or notebook, get one.  At least three times this week, during lunchtime, describe an experience you had during the morning.  Describe your judgment thoughts about the experience.  Next, using only the six DBT emotion words, write which emotions you connected with each of the judgment thoughts.  If you felt several emotions, identify them as primary or secondary emotions.  Remember, all emotions are valid and correct.  Please allow yourself to have the emotions you had.  We can learn different ways of thinking, but our emotions are really a result of our judgment thoughts.

Other Resources

• Wiki: Physical responses to emotion
• Kali Munro: Identifying how you feel
• DBT Self Help: Identifying Emotions
• DBT Self Help: Describing Emotions
• Wiki Book: Understanding Emotions
• Wiki: Emotions

When you're ready to move on go to: Section 14 - PLEASE MASTER.

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