Knowing how to regulate your emotions is important for everyone, whether or not you have BPD.
But what is emotion regulation, and how can you improve your emotion regulation skills?
Understanding Emotion Regulation
We all feel emotions, both negative or positive, on a daily basis.
Many researchers define emotion regulation as the ability to enhance orreduce your emotionsas needed.
Thedefining aspectof emotion regulation is that it comes up whenever a goal is activated.
Goals are highly individual.
They’re what we picture in our headsthe way we’d like things to turn out.
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The Process Model
The prevailing generic theory of emotion regulation is called the process model.
Fortunately, it is possible to develop some of the emotion regulation skills that you lack.
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