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Originally Posted by justafriend306
Both DBT and CBT can be very successful - as long as you take the work involved seriously. This means completeing the assignments to heart - completing them on a daily basis. If people find the therapy unsuccessful it is often a result of not doing the daily work. In the same vein, one must incorporate the work as a lifestyle. The work doesn't end just because the therapy comes to an end. I myself gradually fell off doing so - and my anxiety and depression gradually returned. i am revisiting CBT via a self help book and have noticed an immediate improvement.
Whichever you do study, good luck!
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This is excellent advice! I've noticed that when those who've taken DBT (specifically -- because that's what we're talking about-- but other modalities as well) and gotten great benefit from it took this very approach.
(I'm currently doing an ACT group -- yeah, I'd never heard of this one before either -- and will confess that I wish I could apply myself to it more diligently. It's a case of I'm doing well, which makes it harder to find actually happening situations in which to apply it, yet ironically, chose this time specifically, figuring it would be easier than in a bad time(!) Get the skills down, you know? So... I dunno. It's not too hardcore -- just 10 1 1/2 hour meetings, but I may switch over to another kind of group (trauma) that I think might be more beneficial where I "am" right now to maybe get me understanding the PTSD dx better.)
Anyhow, blather blather, point is, good advice from justafriend about devotion to the work. Put the right group at the right time, apply devotion and amazing things can happen! Good luck, flutterby!