••Emotion Regulation Handout 23: Managing Extreme Emotions.  When your 
emotional arousal is very high, your ability to use your skills breaks down. Knowing your skills breakdown point is important; it signals the need to use crisis survival 
skills (which are taught in the Distress Tolerance module) first. This handout teaches 
you how to identify your skills breakdown point.
••Emotion Regulation Handout 24: Troubleshooting Emotion Regulation 
Skills. When one or more of the emotion regulation skills do not seem to work, do 
not give up on the skills. Instead, troubleshoot how they are being applied. This handout helps you figure out what is interfering with your efforts to manage dif -
ficult or ineffective emotions. You can also use Emotion Regulation Worksheet 16: Troubleshooting Emotion Regulation Skills , which goes over much of the same 
information.