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Old Apr 16, 2013, 07:51 PM
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DBT does help, but it's not something that you can get overnight or even over the course of several weeks. It took me working on DBT or meditation every single day several times a day for about two months before I understood what I was supposed to get out of it and before it seemed to show any result at all.

My suggestion is several-fold. First of all, do not give up on DBT. It is the only proven therapy for BDP, but it needs to be a long-term, almost religious type of committment. Do it every day, several times a day as though your life and your sanity depended on it. Blend that in with some meditation. The two go hand in hand very, very well. You can get additional resources for both at www.dbtselfhelp.com and www.audiodharma.com among other sources. DBT self help has some good meditations at a second called "Instant Mindfulness".

Basically, what both are attempting to do is change the way you think a bit. We overthink everything, we worry about everything, much of which we can do nothing about. We worry about the future that we have no control over since it isn't even here yet. What DBT and meditation attempt to do is to get us to stay in the present. To notice things around us, to not worry about all the stuff we can't control, or at least not as much, to observe the things around us instead of being focused inward all the time. It will help....don't give up on it.
Thanks for this!
WetheKings