Coaching practices for Suds Scale

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• When I try to calm myself I can’t tell if anything’s actually budging
• Loud rooms, certain textures, bright light have always set me on edge, and I think the sessions might be shifting that
• Everything that goes even slightly wrong hits me at the same maxed-out intensity
• When someone asks how I’m doing I just say "okay" or "overwhelmed" and it carries no real information
• I read "thousands affected" and feel a pang, then "hundreds of thousands" and feel that exact same pang

Practices that may help

1. Use the SUD scale to track progress honestly
   Rate your distress 0–10 before and after each round to make changes visible and guide when to stop.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
2. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
   Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
   The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
3. Scale the catastrophe on an actual severity scale
   Rate the feared outcome on a 0–10 severity scale, then compare it to things you know are 10/10.
   Decatastrophizing, Made Practical
4. Scaling Questions
   Use a 0–10 scale to make progress visible, identify what’s working, and define one small next step.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
5. Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
   Scope insensitivity is the tendency to react with nearly the same emotional intensity to problems of vastly different scale — to care about 2,000 birds in danger nearly as much as 200,000 birds. Identified by Kahneman and colleagues, it is one of the clearest demonstrations that moral and decision-relevant emotions respond to the image of a problem, not its magnitude. The bias has strong empirical support and has important implications for charitable giving, risk assessment, and resource allocation.
6. Translate scale into numbers before you respond
   Before reacting to any quantity-based problem, convert the scale into a concrete number you can compare.
   Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
7. Rate the intensity, not just the type
   Add a number: "irritated, about a 3" tells you more than "irritated" alone.
   Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill
8. Modify and Magnify
   Ask: what happens if you make an element bigger, smaller, faster, slower, stronger, or weaker?
   SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique
9. Track SUDs across sessions to see your own progress
   Record distress ratings before and after each session so progress is visible and motivating.
   Counter-Conditioning and Systematic Desensitization
10. Calibrate the Borg scale to your actual physiology
    The 6–20 Borg scale (or 0–10 RPE) only works if you know what each number feels like in your own body.
    The RPE Scale

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