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CecilBGreen 12/27/2014

My tdoc has been pushing DBT. Basically he says it is a life long skill. OK...I am just soooo angry right now. Every day I am closer to thinking more seriously about offing myself. Medications aren't helping. Tdoc says that if I don't want to take medications I can do other things like eat right, exercise, DBT.

Welllllllllllllll if I could do that I wouldn't be seeing him would I?

DBT...lets see...it seems to be like it is all about pretending everything is all right..
I used to do that...did it before I started therapy and I was better then. Now everything is worse. The ups and downs are never ending.

Before someone says I don't want to do the hard work...you are damned right I don't want to do the hard work. I have done hard work all my life. I'm tired.

LeoX3 12/27/2014

I'm with you, Cecil. I try to do my daily work but I am exhausted by so much that it's just... yeah, I get the same urge to just say, "Hello? Where's the feeling better start? Can I just move there now?"

Gentle supportive vibes, vent out.

DoooOver 12/27/2014

I think the same thing with the DBT, it tells me how to push the feelings away. The Schema actually works on the feeling itself. It identifies the feeling and organizes it/them.

This is a very good description of it if you wish to read at some point.
http://psychology.about.com/od/sindex/g/def_schema.htm

deleted_user 12/27/2014

Hugs. Sorry it's all so hard right now x

CecilBGreen 12/27/2014

Thanks for the support, everyone. All of this anger towards my mother came welling up. The way she babied my brother while pushing me aside, the way she used him as her attack dog when she was angry at me. I let all of that out and feel a bit better.

mujicaptsd 12/28/2014

Sounds what my mother did with my sister. Others here report having had similar dysfunctional family systems. Why does the craziness we grew up in have such organized and similar patterns? It makes me angry, too.

bluedragon41 12/28/2014

Fwiw, I think you have lots of value, you were just brainwashed to think otherwise.

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