I sense that you are involved in some clinical program of some kind at your work by your choice of words and language here. Not sure if that is accurate or not.
You need to keep in mind that detachment is used in a different context when it comes to DBing. It also can be used in real life as well.
Let me ask you this:
Originally Posted By: Asitis
I was trying to reassure him that detaching didn't mean we stopped feeling a lot of the difficult feelings, it just lost a lot of its power and didn't drive our actions.
Then what do you call that ^^?
If it isn't detachment, then I don't know what else to call it.