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C = Contributing
Contributing means doing something nice for someone else. When you are doing things for others, you are focused on the other person and not thinking about what bothers you. This helps your feel connected instead of alone.
Check the ways to contribute you could try. Write in your own. □ Draw a picture for someone
□ Smile at someone
□ Hold the door for someone
□ Bake cookies to share
□ Write someone a letter
□ ______________________________________ □ ______________________________________ □ ______________________________________
C = Comparisons
Comparisons can help you look at your situation in a new way. You can compare what is happening right now to a time you had a bigger problem. You can compare how well you use skills now to a time when you did not know DBT skills. Practicing comparisons helps distract you from your current distress.
Check the comparisons you could try. Write in your own.
□ Compare yourself now to when you started DBT
□ __________________________________________ □ __________________________________________
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