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Old Sep 25, 2015, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by SkyscraperMeow View Post
I think you're pretty brave for attending a group at all. I can't imagine a worse place to deal with any serious issue than in a circle of strangers. (I know some people find groups very effective, I just think they also make one very vulnerable.)

I'm assuming that part of the DBT group dynamic isn't supposed to be public shaming. Calling you resistant would seem to fit in that category to me. Especially when you're not resisting all coping skills, just the ones that are in the manual.

It seems to me that those 'skills' are all ways of creating or simulating pain without actually harming oneself. There are plenty of ways to do that if that's what works. Maybe that's what his problem was, that your chosen coping skills don't involve sufficient simulation of pain and therefore don't act to effectively replace the actual harm. In some odd way, his problem could maybe somehow seem to be that your coping skills aren't painful enough?
In DBT it's supposed to be entirely skills based and there shouldn't even be explicit talk about SI or suicidal thoughts or any triggering behaviors. They're referred to as "target behaviors" and they get brought up in the context of having practiced skills. I guess I imagined this conversation happened one on one?? If he had this conversation in front of the group... I sure as hell wouldn't be back.
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