Venting 10 months into therapy (DBT) I want to give up. Is this normal

[Sims3losertrait]

Picrel. Kinda just been running into a wall wrt the whole "willingness" and "radical acceptance" thing specifically. Starting to consider getting back into selfharm. Beginning to unrepress emotions reminded me of why I repressed them in the first place, I can't handle them. I think "processing emotions" is fake. I think they don't go away after you process them, so why bother. I'm assuming this is some "it gets worse before it gets better" type shit. How long does it take to start getting better? Been in this state for about a month or two ish

 

[timf]

Formulaic or scripted therapy should not be expected to work for everyone. One can look at emotions as serving two purposes. The first is to enjoy life. This can be abused when someone tries to stimulate their emotions directly and become a type of addiction. The second way emotions are useful is when they make us feel bad and let us know that there is a problem that needs to be fixed.

In school we may encounter a bully that makes us feel bad. The bad feeling can motivate us to find a way to avoid him, negotiate with him, or confront him. Revisiting old emotions without a way to apply the feeling to specific corrective action sounds like opening old wounds for no purpose.