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Originally Posted by hankster
Thanks!  and, i wish! But dbt hadnt been invented yet, so no, i just went blindly along.
Like my post last night - i wrote it in the middle of the night for me. I expected all of pc to recognize that and to cut me slack. I used to write emails at work in the middle of the night - while i was still at work - and i expected my bosses to note the time and so not get excited when i came in late the next morning. I thought it would be gauche or declasse to point out the obvious. Eventually, we talked about it and bosses told me they assumed i was fixing the email time, that it wasnt representative of when i was actually at the office. So i was like doubly screwed.
Yeah, i cant tell how my posts come across to people. I just try to be as honest and direct as possible, but not "painfully honest". I do try to be supportive. Here i did say it had been a while since i had taken dbt - perhaps i should have made it more clear that i didnt remember all the lingo - i felt i had implied it. |
It's okay
I only know basics...the little bit I read up until my T told me not to learn it on my own. Though that's basically what I'm now doing...lol.
I really think the county way over simplified it and tweaked it to fit the majority of their clients. I was told that most their clients are Schizophrenic and they don't really take people with BPD. So my needs are different than their clients. And I can tell some of the people are lower functioning. One woman is on something...she slurs her words!
But this has always been a problem for me. I don't fit into the mental health world because I'm too high functioning and I don't fit into the "normal" world because I'm not high enough functioning. So I'm literally on the border
It's why I like it here: there's such a diversity of people that I feel like I can fit in a little. Then again, I have BPD and put people on a pedestal even though they're probably equals (I learned that from the workbook
).