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Old Aug 14, 2015, 10:56 AM
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Pros/Cons for attending a partial hospitalization DBT program instead of going to school this semester?

I'm headed to the facility now for my second assessment, to start on Monday... but I'm having doubts. I think I'd rather be in school, and hold off on this until December when school lets out. then I can go through the month of dec and jan. But I KEEP putting it off, over and over. (I really don't want to go.)

But I'm trying to figure out what would offer the most containment for me emotionally...I feel like DBT might be triggering at a time when I already feel triggered (that being there might give me "permission" to fall all the way apart,) bc I won't have any expectation to be functional, I'll just be a mental patient.

Vs if I'm in school, bc I have to be functional to be there, and with that expectation, maybe I'll be able to meet it.... or maybe I'll just crash and burn very publicly in from of my Peers and Professors.

I don't know what the right choice is.
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