So usually after I make a mistake or ruin a relationship, I would immediately start thinking terrible things about myself and become anxious and depressed. Today, I learned that something I did a few weeks ago made one of my friends very angry. Instead of immediately jumping into the self-hate thinking, I managed to use my DBT coping skills to calm myself down. I now feel like I'm back in my reasonable mind and I have just made a plan to apologise to that friend tomorrow. I just can't believe the coping skills worked, and I'm so so so relieved it did. I guess I wrote this to confirm to myself that it really did happen.