I must agree about CBT. No help to me whatsoever. I resisted DBT for a long time as well. I softened this summer when I Was in IOP this summer but I still just mostly use the distress tolerance skills. I liked the program I was in because DBT was sprinkled in, it wasn’t the full intensive course. That did nothing for me. I need talk therapy above all. But different types of therapy work for different people so I can see how a DBT course might be helpful to some. I just don’t think it addresses the root of the flawed behavior and thought patterns which is what I need.

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Jane, I’m with you, I think the unseasonably warm and sunny weather this week has amped me up a bit. I could not sleep at all last night. I can tell I’m not going to sleep tonight either so I already took the PRN seroquel and hopefully it will work without making it too difficult to wake.

I felt bad for my student today. I could barely get one coherent sentence out of her. I don’t know if this is true for anyone else here but I can tell pretty immediately if someone is manic and/or psychotic by their eyes. Hers were really scary today. Mind do it too, I just don’t notice when I’m in the thick of it. When I came out of the hospital last may I looked at a selfie I’d taken right before I went in and saw how wild my eyes looked! I looked out of my mind.

Tomorrow and Saturday are supposed to be nearly 60 degrees and mostly sunny. We’re taking a day trip on Saturday down to cape may, which is the very bottom tip of NJ. It will be chillier down there but I don’t care, I’ve got to get tf out of the house and so does my son. RS is always up for going out, he gets very antsy sitting around all day. It should be fun, there’s lots to do in cape may even in the winter.