Posted by laterain on November 10, 2005, at 18:39:48
In reply to Re: Depressing T stories ***trigger***, posted by fairywings on November 8, 2005, at 19:40:35
not to be an annoying DBT-head, and not saying I'm "convinced" as of yet, but in DBT (which is a variation of CBT--all these initials, lol)but the whole theory is that it won't necessarily get better, the feelings WON'T go away, but having the "skills" helps you somehow to deal with them. it was very sobering to be looking through Marsha Linehan's book and she said something towards the end about not knowing if the clients she treats really ever COULD get beyond the trauma they'd experienced as children, but that the whole point of DBT was to somehow help make it more bearable or teach them how to cope with the suckiness of it all. I don't know. when I hear things like that, I do wonder about why I would even bother living through the next thirty years in this same mess that I'm in . . . but I'm here, by default, anyway. but I do share the frustration about "just change the way you THINK" as if that's some kind of magic bullet . . .
Rain
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> > *Yeah. Those past feelings don't seem to go away. My T. I think is more cbt oriented. I think she thinks that all that old sh*t will just go away once you've got enough 'skills' or something. But they don't. They just keep eating away at you. At me anyways.
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