Check the facts
When the emotion runs ahead
What you learn hereCheck whether an emotion’s intensity fits the facts, honor the one that fits, and choose an opposite action, in small steps, for the one that doesn’t.
This page summarises the lesson and cites its sources. The full lesson —animated, narrated, with its practice— opens with the Lifetime Pass, along with the rest of the course and everything to come.
See the Pass — CA$39 →SourcesLinehan 2015 · DBT skills: check the facts and opposite action (not therapy) · Updated 2026-07-25