People with overcontrol symptoms can benefit from RO-DBT. Symptoms include:

• rigidity

• inability to connect

• too much self-control,

• inflexible behavioral repertoires,

• emotional suppression and inhibition,

• elevated distress tolerance,

• tendencies towards perfectionism,

• low reward responding and high threat responding,

• anxious apprehension, and

• high detail focused processing

 

IN RO-DBT SKILLS CLASSES

YOU WILL LEARN:

• Social Signaling: How you are saying things without actually saying them.

• Your Social Safety System: The biological reasons why you struggle to let go.

• Emotional loneliness: Why you rarely (if ever!) feel truly connected to others. 

• Radical Openness: How staying safe can be dangerous.

• Coping Style: How your way of responding to stress may not all that it seems from the outside.