OK, I'll respond to something I wanted to say about this part of your post:
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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
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ETA: All the mental health professionals I've seen seem to be far more concerned with what label my problems fall under than actually looking at my problems and helping me solve them. For an analogy of this phenomenon think of it this way: it would be like United States leaders debating endlessly on whether or not hurricane Matthew is a "real" hurricane, and instead insisting it must be a tropical storm or a tropical depression or well they shouldn't call it Matthew that's such a bad name blah blah blah instead of focusing on relief efforts to the people who have suffered, are suffering, and will suffer because of the storm.
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A person at any one time can only work with the responses and abilities they have. "Acceptance and Change" is a maxim, I think, in DBT -- for the client. I'd turn that around for the therapist -- try accepting me as a person, as I am in the moment, first. That's what I have not gotten from therapists, for whatever reason.
Just looking at this, some might say that my basic problem is worrying too much about being socially acceptable and not tolerating feeling judged by a therapist. But that's who I am and the responses I have at the moment -- still, after many years of therapy. (ETA: including therapy for trauma, which pretty well has been successful, but PD issues remain, whether from being ingrained for so long or what IDK. There they are, though.)
Would not be a problem in a self-help group of people who have PD's or PD-like traits. Would not want a "therapist" in there judging me and others, though. There might be other kinds of problems that would have to be worked out, or not, but not the judging/labeling one.