I'm on my third group, this is a refresher from the first. It has a lot of great coping skills and if it's a good group a lot of helpful ideas from others. The group I'm in right now is pretty iffy. We have 12 weeks, once a week and once a month with the therapist.

DBT self help books are available online, you can even do the course online, buy the books too (if you prefer). I am reading a really good book out of the ordinary a little but it's very good ~ Healing The Heart of Conflict. It's teaching me how to break down the issue's.

It's very good. Here is a great link for info on the DBT
http://www.get.gg/dbt.htm

healing from bpd debbie corso she has bpd and ptsd youtube or go to her website she also runs dbt path

oh and i think being part of the group is an important part of dbt it helps therapist share the load and in group from what i understand you are taught coping skills

THis is part of my therapy and I'm getting there slow but sure. It does start changing your mind about you and making you more conscious, even tho' I didn't think it was working.... Yeah, then I realized I'd gone almost ten days without once automatically lapsing into "X occurs, I am worthless".... Whoa! Dang it!

I don't do group---none for me, too phobic still---but I know a lot of people here will have great ideas.

Smiles and gentle purrs,
Leo

Thanks for the links. It looks like my therapist has been using some of these methods with my already though informally.

I can see where the groups would be helpful but I'm not sure groups are an option for me right now. Finances, time and a little hesitant about groups to begin with.

Leo - I'm the same way at the moment. It's really hard for me to get out of the house all of a sudden (the last couple weeks). I'm thinking about doing the online course & books. I have a few and lot's of notes.

Cecil, I'm not sure what type of medical you have, but medicare covered my groups 100%, if that is what is stopping you. But, I'm not into being around a lot of people myself, so I understand that too.

((hugs))

I have one of the "blues" for insurance. I can't complain about the coverage because in these times insurance is like gold. I pay 40 dollars co pay for each therapy session. Groups may not be covered because they are covering my psychologist but if they did cover it would carry a copay of 40 dollars a group session. I'm not willing to trade my psychologist for a group. I have worked hard to build trust.

Amazon, DBT workbook, green and white cover, forget the title...but it's the top-rated DBT workbook they carry and I recommend it, I have a copy.
Very useful stuff in there.

hylierandom, Thanks. I will look for it.

Well, let me put it this way. For me, it broke me and built me back up so I had a hope of being levelheaded. At that time though, I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Now, they are researching and saying a number of cases get misdiagnosed as borderline when they actually have c-ptsd.

So take from that what you will. But it did help me. And it has been known to help most conditions to some degree. But it saved me at the time.