That is great! DBT can be hard/confusing but it really does help in the end! Good luck with it!!

good luck!!!! i was in a DBT group twice-about 14 months-and it helped A LOT.....i hope it helps you too....sometimes it can be frustrating, but keep on pushing through!!!!

Good luck! I'm very excited for you. I really hope it helps :)

Thanks everyone. I really like my DBT team, they seem to be genuine. We actually sometimes get M & Ms and I really like them.

im in an intensive outpatient program that focuses on DBT..i find it helpful at times i hope it works for you :)

Hurrah for YOU! Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) SKILLS will help you reprogram/retrain your brain to get used to other feelings besides anxiety, sadness, anger...

Amazing that God actually made us with the ability to be reprogrammed! I did a 6 month DBT "class" as i call it with both group therapy and individual therapy simultaneously. i chose to view it as inpatient even though it was not-- it took so much brain energy, i had to limit my interactions with energy-sucking people, situations, places. once i figured out what items to cut out, it was awesome freedom to just learn and practice the skills.

Regardless of diagnoses, the skills can help. the book "Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder" by Marsha Linehan contains many of the handouts we used. with 30+ years of research, this lady cracked the code on how to retrain the brain to travel more healthy pathways.

it is indeed a bizarre process--to get used to life w/o anxiety. it has been THE IDENTITY CRISIS OF A LIFETIME for me as my fears used to define who i was. we need to REPLACE the anxiety with new focus on things like: "What will I ENJOY DOING?? for a 10 minute 'vacation' away from it all? for a two-hour open slot in my day? hmm...paint my toenails...have coffee with a friend on the comfy couch...who knew? at first, it all felt so BORING!!! life w/o fear does not seem as exciting at first, but PEACE is a whole new world view that we need to integrate little by little into each area of our lives.

after 9 years as a mom, i am just starting to ENJOY reading my children bedtime stories; for the first time in 15 years of marriage, i allow myself to sit in a recliner and watch baseball games with my husband. it's all about MINDFULNESS, and that is the overriding theme with the DBT skills. if you'd like to hear more, send me a message! Best, aliasdavid

DBT was developed by Marsha Linehan, a psychologist who herself had BPD:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/health/23lives.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0


Good luck!

Keep your head up and keep trying... it is SO worth it in the end. When you are finished with DBT, you will have a toolbox full of coping skills that will help you for the rest of your life!

I haven't had any intense DBT anything; been trying the workbooks but i think what you're doing--with the structure and all--sounds right on. Accountability and support throughout would help me tremendously because, by nature, I won't as a rule make the time to do this for myself. Even so, just TODAY I went to the DBT self help site, printed out some instant "in the moment" strategies, and managed to "get back into my skin" (I had been agitated to the point of non-functioning, and i was at work). So, it works.
Again, good for you!!