First Day of PHP

First I'd like to say sorry for cross posting; I've been posting in Social Chat but it really belongs here. Second is although I said DBT; I'm not in an actual DBT program, I'm in an "Emotion Regulation" PHP program although a lot of the material, schedule, etc. is from Dr. Linehan's book(s). Plus this forum has a lot more activity than the DBT. Finally, sorry if my post is long and keeps going and jumping around .. that's the way I write; deal with it =P

Hey y'all (I feel like I'm the only person born raised and lived my whole life in central NJ who says y'all lol), I started my program yesterday. Well, today actually. When I went for my intake on Wednesday, they told me I'd be in dual PHP til they talk to the women's program doc. Lucky I was only in dual for a day; it was mostly kids and all the groups were about substance abuse except art. Like ugh I know all this ****! I signed up for PH to get my MH issues under control since my SA ones already are! Smh luckily at the end if the day yesterday they told me I'd be in the women's today. They didn't putme in DBT though. They put me in Emotion Regulation which is what I was actually interested in before, but then I didn't want to cos their website they didn't do 1 on 1 in ER. But they do so yay! I know I'm gonna like it either way. I didn't learn much at all today but that's okay. I'm gonna show you guys a copy of my schedule. But yeah I hope this program helps!

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So basically only the first two hours is DBT or Emotion Regulation (me) or Trauma. So really it isn't even a real DBT program to begin with, even though I found it on a legit BPD site .. Not sure if it was behavioraltech.org to the NEABPD? or whatever the acronym is. If you can see it in the pic you'll see that for the first two hours my circled groups that were chosen for me teach DBT skills but I guess it's just not as intense as the straight DBT? Iuno, I was in with the doc and my therapist my first two hours. The best thing though is that on Monday it goes back to week one so I'm actually really starting at the beginning awesome! The rest I chose .. healing family dynamics is about exactly what it says: helping rebuild a relationship w your fam. Moving forward is about planning for the future, like making a wellness plan. But this Tuesday I have an official orientation. Mock 12 step meeting, self explanatory. Yoga cos the other two groups really aren't for me since I know I'm good enough and I have alright self esteem surprisingly. Emotion management cos that's why I'm here! Self explanatory. And then safety after hours is basically weekend planning; today we did it I'm the art room and my collage was about what I'm doing this weekend. Here's a pic of it almost done since I needed a pic to see how it looked before I put it on paper. And of course it's still there. But ya

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I'll explain it to you if ya want. I didn't pick some things since they're mandatory in the afternoon. Oh and there's free lunch and it's good! They order sammies from across the street.

Oh and my appointment at welfare sucked; I still have to wait another month to be approved and get housing so I'm stuck at my annoying friend's house like omfg when I went I left yesterday I told him I wasn't gonna be home til at least 7:30 cos on Thursdays after PHP I have to go to my meth clinic to dose and then I have my weekly group this mofo hmu three fricken times asking me when I'm gonna be home cos he's bored and lonely like wtf there are so many things he can do and I tell him!! Get a job get into a program so he can use DVRS to go to school go to physical therapy so he can get his stroked out arm to start working again but he's too lazy to do anything even though he says he'll do it oh well diff story I just wanted to say what's up and I'm probably gonna start posting in the sub abuse or psychotherapy groups after this post but who knows. Have a good weekend!! Ugh I always write so much and then I have madd viewers but like 5 replies. Ah well, kbye.

Really sounds like you are having a much better experience with PHP than I did. I don't think they know how to do it down here.

But I'm happy it sounds like it's going to work well for you. Hope the welfare gets worked out, be patient.

Best wishes.

Thank you Abe. What kind of program where you in (example: dual, trauma, etc.), and where are you from (I'm from Trenton, NJ which is part of both the Philly and NY metro area, although it's closer to Philly, so there are a lot of resources around her fortunately) Like I said, on my actual first day I was in the adult dual program, and it was BS. It was more SA than MH, I already knew everything, and the groups and topics were extremely lame .. except art cos even though I'm not an artsy person, it's fun. But in the women's groups you're actually learning stuff; they have a curriculum .. they give us a binder and bag full of paperwork and it's super intense stuff, and we always have homework, even if it's just filling out our diary card and journaling (optional). Nobody fully explained the back of the diary card to me yet, and just looking at the back is totally confusing, so yeah; def gonna learn ALOT.