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Originally Posted by skysblue
And how did you move past them or correct them or understand them? How long did it take?
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Kaliope's answer reminded me about my DBT group. Is that process described on PC?
In a nutshell, a year is divided into quarters, each quarter is devoted to a group of similar emotions and/or a theme, like mindfulness, assertiveness, etc. (my booklets are buried somewhere, maybe somebody can expand this list?).
And every week you learn about those things - you end up taking the whole universe of emotions and breaking them down into 40-some parts.
And at the end of the year, you're a human with every possible emotional skill, ta-da. You take bubble-baths and you can say NO.
Really, one session we went around the table saying 'no' out loud. It wasn't easy for a lot of us.
There is a teacher's guidebook for the Linehan textbook, and there are also "student" workbooks, but not BY Linehan, as I recall. If you take a class, they probably give you copied handouts.
The workbooks are stuff like sentence completion, which I really enjoyed (thru these I discovered that the word "deserve" is not in my vocabulary in a positive sense), and the acronyms, which I thought were weird, sorry, and just a lot of new ways of looking at emotions that I found very helpful and really had no understanding of before the classes.