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Does your Overcontrol present as overly agreeable or disagreeable or both?

RO DBT Theory identifies two subtypes of Overcontrolled Behavior: Overly Agreeable & Overly Disagreeable (Lynch, 2018).  These subtypes often have different behavioral patterns and social signals they want to shift.  Humans are complicated though. It’s also possible that we may display a mix. We might act more overly agreeable in some relationships and overly disagreeable with others (e.g. our immediate family).

The Overly Disagreeable:

The Overly Agreeable:

Excerpted from RO DBT Treatment Manual (Lynch, 2018)

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