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Old Aug 05, 2011, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by skysblue View Post
And how did you move past them or correct them or understand them? How long did it take?
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.