To a large degree, that is true, and unfortunately, with BPDs, we tend to always look on the bad side. It's important to believe and keep up the DBT and meditation regardless of what our minds are telling us if you want to gain benefit from it.

Saying that DBT "is not working" makes it sound like an appliance you just bought and it's much more complicated than that. If you don't think it's going to work, you're probably right. That doesn't mean it will for sure, but you're shooting yourself in the foot if you take a negative attitude about it without giving it a real chance and really work hard at it. Like I said, I worked at it several times a day for over two months before I saw anything, but I was so desperate at the time I couldn't afford to give up; it was all I had.

Think of it this way: we're miserable because we think we should be miserable. Our minds are telling us this. It can work the other way around with a lot of work.