08/05/2023
Has your psychologist spoken about activity scheduling?
Scheduling activities is a valuable emotional regulation skill. Whilst it is important to learn skills and techniques to tolerate and regulate distressing emotions, we also need to increase the frequency and likelihood of experiencing pleasant emotions. The way we do this is to schedule activities that are likely to prompt those emotions and thought processes. However, if we only focus on scheduling fun-based tasks then we miss out on the emotions and experiences of mastery-based tasks, such as feeling competent, sense of achievement or a sense of being challenged.
Next time you are scheduling activities, try to have a mix of fun and mastery based tasks.