The one thing that really helped me in DBT was emotional regulation.....it wasn't the regulating emotions that I had an issue with....I wouldn't allow myself to feel emotions because my mother was totally emotional & I wanted to be NOTHING like her.....so I shut off my emotions & logic was the only thing I allowed myself to think I used to deal with life.....I knew my anger emotion & very seldom a happy emotion....but I had no idea that all the other emotions even existed so I could never express how I was really feeling because I didn't have the words.....going through all the emotions & learning what they were & how they react in our lives was the best thing that ever happened to me.....I could finally analyze what emotions I was feeling instead of being in denial that I was feeling anything.

Mindfulness was something that fit right in with my logical mind so I didn't struggle too bad with that....but what DBT did most of all was to help me put words to what was going on in my life....all aspects of it & I started to learn the definitions of things....like I knew I was angry at the way a past T related to me regarding a trauma I went through....it wasn't until I got into DBT that I learned the term about being invalidated......it opened me up to be able to totally express myself & what was going on with me.....that was worth absolutely everything.

However.....where I have therapy, one has to be in private therapy then they suggest the DBT group along with the individual because Group isn't set up to take about the details of the issues......Group is to make you aware of them so that You can work with your private T on the details.