Posted by trouble on March 16, 2002, at 1:57:15
In reply to Re: posters, any info on DBT protocol? help!, posted by LiLi80 on March 15, 2002, at 8:32:53
Hi Lilli,
Your friend may have hit on something sleazy there that I, in all my cynical paranoia missed. Yikes! That's why we need multiple posters on this ole board.
The Thick skull thing has to do w/ some of my earlier posts in January re: DBT. I did it for 3 months and came away from it sneering, chiefly b/c the therapists did it right out of the manual and I'm too deep to be given formulaic therapy. But the education itself is good stuff, basically a mix of Eastern metaphysics and a Western social-cognitive approach. They gave us about 50 handouts to refer to in various emergencies, and we'd go over each one, point by point. BORE-ING!
More seriously, I saw a need for process in my group that went ignored, people were in all kinds of severe emotional states, but the therapists put the kabosh on any discusssion of feelings or issues, we were there to learn specific techniques, and that was that. Rigid, controlling and uptight, just what the doctor ordered. It was hard for me to see people walk out the door all depressed and preoccupied w/their problems. To me therapy is about going wherever the client is and staying 'til the need is met. But DBT is an educational therapy and maybe some of us weren't ready for it at the time. All us borderlines started acting like our diagnoses and after a few months I took my handouts and quit. But I do use them.
The good news is that the founder of DBT advocates a more relaxed, humorous approach, and after studying the manual myself I got the impression she would have been miffed at how bossy and severe my group-leaders were.
Maybe I'll try another group in town, since I see in you some of my own enduring problems-in-living, and IMO those simple but specific DBT techniques could come in handy, anchor us both a bit right now. And whoever teaches you them better do it right, that is, By The Book, you don't have time to mess around with mavericks right now.
Guess sometimes the old disdain for orthodoxy gets in the way of my seeing the big picture, and your courage and determination to create some order in your world has shown me there's more to life than being an enfant terrible. Hard lesson, but I'm learning, kicking and screaming all the way.keep me posted,
trouble
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