[growlycat]

Kashi finally convinced me to take his ten week dbt class in September. I've been thinking about it for some time. Finally caved in I guess but I kind of want to do it too. He even knows who he wants to seat me next to. He has a "fragile" person in mind who needs support and thinks I'm the person. This should be interesting

I am most worried about being jealous of one of his other patients (some may be individual therapy patients others just do his class). I asked Kashi if there is anyone in this class who is an attention w#ore who sucks the life out of the room?

His answer?

"Me."

I nearly died laughing. I do like a t with a sense of humor

[guilloche]

Ooh! Good luck with it! You're really brave to give it a go, especially with your own therapist. I'd worry about being jealous of his interactions with others too - not just his patients, but anyone in the group (I get jealous easily I guess, lol!)

How do you feel about being put in a position to support someone else? That would worry me a little, I think, as it feels like an odd thing to put on you (i.e. you should be there to focus on yourself and getting the skills you need, not to worry about what's going on with other people). How is he imagining that you're going to support this other person? (I could be off-base, I have never done group therapy or a dbt class.)

Good luck with it! Keep us posted! I'm really curious to hear what you think of the class... I've had a couple Ts suggest that I go to DBT...

[growlycat]

I had mentioned at one point worrying about my 20 year plus design career and did I need to have a plan b if my options dried up in this competitive field. I have considered lightly anyways doing art therapy maybe going back to school for it Don't know if I'd be good at it or if the world even needs it. I think Kashi wants to see me interact with people and maybe he'll let me know if I'm good at dealing with people or not. I'm glad he told me because I think he could have just done it and not told me what he was up to.

I don't have to do anything special. I think he thinks I'm friendly enough to not freak this person out. I'll let you know how it all goes. Thanks for the support!!

Good luck growly!

[Lemoncake]

Good luck growlycat- your therapist sounds awesome!

[growlycat]

Lemmoncake thank you!! He is awesome and is a bit of a character too.

[guilloche]

Neat! Good luck! And, remember - even if the person next to you DOES freak out, or doesn't click with you... that doesn't necessarily reflect badly on you! You could be the best, most friendliest, most relaxed, wonderful, empathic person in the world... but someone with a lot of social anxiety (or whatever) going on may not be able to recognize that and may still shut down or get freaked out. Just a thought!

Good luck with it!

[unaluna]

I think i would have liked dbt not with all strangers. Its a little strange, so having your t there i think will be grounding. Plus some of my dbt leaders were trying to get me to stop seeing my t, so that was really weird.