Escape Strategies

-The escape strategy itself is damaging and causes other problems in your life,

-Your negative emotions usually worsen because you feel you haven’t coped well,

-By continually using your escape strategy, you never learn other more helpful ways of tolerating emotional distress, and

-By continually using your escape strategy you never have the opportunity to stay with the emotional distress and therefore challenge the beliefs you hold about not being able to tolerate negative emotions

(maybe you can tolerate them, but you have just never given yourself the chance???)