High fit

Distress Tolerance involves surviving a crisis without making it worse. Bryony Chappell, a 10-year-old alone in an unfamiliar Colorado ski village with no way to contact her father, did not spiral or freeze — she made a series of sequential, stabilizing decisions: getting on the shuttle bus, identifying a store that looked legitimate, and queuing up to ask for help. Each small action kept the situation from deteriorating further rather than amplifying the crisis. She reached safety without panicking, and the situation resolved without additional harm.