03/24/2026
When our emotions are overwhelmingly intense, it is very difficult for our brain to process information and calm ourselves down.
The T.I.P.P. skill comes from Dialectal Behavioural Therapy (DBT), and it uses your body chemistry to help slow your heart rate and regulate your breathing to help you return to your baseline faster and be able to use your other coping strategies more effectively.
As the T.I.P.P. skills are a “quick fix”, make sure you don’t overdo it. Rather, use the skills in times of heightened emotional dysregulation to help the negative and overwhelming emotion(s) pass. Save this for a time when you are struggling to help be better able to utilize your coping strategies to move through the emotion and continue with your day with a little more ease.
Feel free to comment what you do in moments of distress that help you calm down and work through tough emotion dysregulation.
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