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*Sapphire*
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Hi
I am due to be finishing my Dialectical Behavior Therapy treatment for borderline personality disorder.
Although I am alot better now than I was when i started and am controlling impulses I do have some issues with it such as that I feel it does not really deal with the underlying causes of bpd. However i have a good therapist who realises i have other underlying problems and she is referring me for further therapy, so i do not have to live a life where i am just using skills to cope and prevent self damaging behaviors, hopefully this therapy will help me to understand and thus prevent me from having the impulses to do self damaging behaviors begin with.
However in saying that other people in my DBT group seem to have come on leaps and bounds and it appears to have really worked for them.
I feel VERY fortunate to be in the program, i am in the first ever group to be run in the area and now there is a huge waiting list of people wanting the treatment. I also feel that the fact that you can contact your therapist from 9am-7pm on a mobile phone for skills training is excellent (although this may vary from therapist to therapist and in different areas) and has been of invaluable help to me. Whereas in the begining i was calling quite often i now hardly ever call because i know what to do and can almost hear the advce she would give me without her being there. I liked their philosophy that crisis's don't often happen whilst you are in the group or seeing your therapist but in real life! - so true!
I was wondering what others thought of it?
I keenly await your replies (if any!)
I am due to be finishing my Dialectical Behavior Therapy treatment for borderline personality disorder.
Although I am alot better now than I was when i started and am controlling impulses I do have some issues with it such as that I feel it does not really deal with the underlying causes of bpd. However i have a good therapist who realises i have other underlying problems and she is referring me for further therapy, so i do not have to live a life where i am just using skills to cope and prevent self damaging behaviors, hopefully this therapy will help me to understand and thus prevent me from having the impulses to do self damaging behaviors begin with.
However in saying that other people in my DBT group seem to have come on leaps and bounds and it appears to have really worked for them.
I feel VERY fortunate to be in the program, i am in the first ever group to be run in the area and now there is a huge waiting list of people wanting the treatment. I also feel that the fact that you can contact your therapist from 9am-7pm on a mobile phone for skills training is excellent (although this may vary from therapist to therapist and in different areas) and has been of invaluable help to me. Whereas in the begining i was calling quite often i now hardly ever call because i know what to do and can almost hear the advce she would give me without her being there. I liked their philosophy that crisis's don't often happen whilst you are in the group or seeing your therapist but in real life! - so true!
I was wondering what others thought of it?
I keenly await your replies (if any!)
