Key points

Opposite action is a DBT skill that helps disrupt unhelpful emotional urges.

Doing the opposite of what your emotion urges you to do can shift how you feel and what you think.

A strength of HSPs is emotional attunement. Opposite action works very well when we can identify our feelings.

Last week, I was driving home after a particularly long day of client sessions, feeling quite down due to some of the brutal stories that had been shared. My favorite podcast The Daily , usually a welcome distraction from the LA gridlock, was discussing preventable measles deaths, making me feel even more lost and hopeless. Inching forward, the tragic cause of the traffic revealed itself—a nasty three-car pileup. When I finally dragged myself through my front door, ready for the day to be ov

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