"If that was your experience with it... Then that really sux" and "I'm sorry you had such a bad experience with DBT myself :-( "



- MY - post clearly stated that I DONT do DBT so obviously my experience with it doesn't "sux" and I couldnt have had a bad experience with it if I haven't done it.

yes dietary is educational BUT the client is expected to do "homework" on that by instituting what they are learning in the classes into their outside of therapy time at the least during the time that they are in the classes. Many of my friends ARE trying DBT.

Yes order of skills are varied according to the client BUT the client must do thoser skills in the order assigned by the therapist. they can't just suddenly jump all over the place in the classes. The purpose of DBT is to not having your thoughts jumping all over from this topic to that one and then way over here and way over there. The therapist not the client regulates what the client is working on each session until the client learns to look at their problems non emotionally and non judgementally

Accepting things means not being emotionally triggered by the problems anymore and Changing things also means fixing things so the cleint is no longer emotionally triggered by that problem. so yea thats part of it.

Problem getting fired from a job - emotional point of view - that boss hated me the people there are all out to get me ..

DBT point of veiw gets rid of the emotional boss hated me people out to get me and has the person look instead at the physical of why they got fired - job site being downsized, poor workmanship, getting to work late, agency has been sold, government cutbacks results in the agency laying off their workers, and so on.

Problem person having flashbacks - emotional - panic attack thats so gross, I hate that when it happens, it hurts my head, makes my feel sick to my stomach, I just want to cut,

DBT point of view looks at the flashback WITHOUT the client experiences and thoughts of the panic, feeling sick, cutting and so on. It requres the person to look at the flashback as if they are a third neutral person watching the situation unfold with their ADULT awareness mind instead of the emotional right back there again child mind that they were when the original situation happened.

As for - MY - personal therapy program it is geared towards expressing emotions. - I - have what professionals call "lack of affect" meaning - I - don't show emotions very often. - MY - having DID means that all my memories have been separated according to the 5 senses (hearing, taste, smell, touch, how I was touched,) and EMOTIONS. and these memories according to - MY - 5 senses and EMOTIONS have been stored as separate pieces of memories in MY unconscious level of thinking. The only time I show emotion before co consciousness and integration of that memory is when I am dissociated. I can't do DBT because I am already looking at my problems from the non emotional nonjudgemental point of view when aware (not dissociated.) so my therapy program is learning to STIMULATE my 5 senses and EMOTIONS not throw MY emotions aside to look at things.

MY therapy work includes drawing, writing, crafts, feeling different textures, smelling different smells, right down to noticing and expressing when I am feeling angry, happy sad and so on about my flashbacks, panic attacks and so on.

I DON'T do DBT and have never done DBT. Every time I have asked a therapy professional about it I have been told that it is for those that do not have "lack of affect". it is for those that cannot see the problems clearly due to they are too emotional about their problems. It is for looking at things from the non emotional point of view which - I - already do when aware.

So I have never been put on it.