DBT & the outstanding group leader we had helped me learn about my emotions & how to regulate them in the Emotional Regulation section & learned how to deal with people better....after living for 54 years if my life surrounded by family & H with ASD, relating to people in a NORMAL way was a foreign concept & the Interpersonal Effectiveness section really helped me learn how to communicate so much better. It was strange to all on a sudden have people listen to what I was saying. I was so used to never bother finishing a thought & all of a sudden people listened & I would catch myself having to remember the full thought & actually finish expressing myself. I learned to deal with lifes challenges in the distress tolerance section & heaven knows even though I had left my H who filled my life with distress & moved 2100 miles away his irresponsibility continued to haunt my life with distressing issues I had to deal with.

Though most of the crap in my life I thought came the last 13 years of my married life, after learning skills to handle the junk in my life was ehen I started opening doors from the past. My T said it was the point when integrating the now with what had causef the now in my oast was normal because I now had the skills to deal with it. It opened up all kinds of figuring out things from my past & helped me resolve the PTSD from even the PTSD from the trsuma I had several years before leaving & ones I hadnt even realized were traumas. I was shocked at the help DBT provided. Only worthwhile therspy in 15 years..

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