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May 31, 2009, 06:07 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2009
Location: So Cal
Posts: 3,342
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Hey Pom.....
I have C-PTSD and DID. I did 8 months of DBT and it helped me soooo much!!
The goal behind DBT is to teach us to recognize our negative coping skills, how they affect our goals, and to learn positive coping skills and how and when to use them.
A lot of information out there says it is to treat BPD, and yes, it is a primary treatment for that, but it is also now being used for other issues as well.
When I first signed up for DBT, I was angry too. I went to one class got pissed off and scared and dropped out. I told my T that I didn't think it was for me.
So....after a year went by, with 2 suicide attempts and one inpatient hospitalization later, my T told me that she couldn't continue to see me if I wouldn't agree to do the DBT. I was mortified at losing my T, so I went back. I hated it at first, but after about the third class I started working the program and embracing the information and saw that it really was helpful. I completed the therapy and went back to my old T, who I've been with since.
One thing that we learn in DBT is that anger is considered a secondary emotion. It acts as a coping skill almost for other emotions such as fear, disgust, sorrow, to block a person from feeling these emotions.
So my anger I had towards it really wasn't anger at all, I learned. It was fear!! Fear of failure, fear of something new, and even the fear of getting better, because if I got better, then I wouldn't know who I was anymore. Who would I be without all these issues? It's a scary question for anybody.
DBT is not for everyone, but I found it very helpful and it has actually saved my life and kept me from hurting myself a lot since I did it.
Just wanted to put in my two cents. 
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