Subjective Units of Distress Scale
Rating the Intensity of Your Emotions Naming your emotions tells you what your feel. The SUD scale tells you how much you feel. In the 1950s psychiatrist Joseph Wolpe developed a scale to help patients rate their discomfort or distress in increments 0f 0 to 100. This measure, known as the Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale, or SUDS, has become a standard means of self-evaluating individual experience. We use a simplified version of the scale, with increments of 0 to 10. Considering that what brings people to seek out [...]