Posted by SLS on January 5, 2016, at 20:30:37
In reply to Re: chronic suicidality / winning the chronic battle, posted by baseball55 on January 5, 2016, at 20:02:26
> I know recommending therapy on this board is pretty much a waste of words
No way! They are words of wisdom.
When I was in psychotherapy, it was my intention to take care of as much old crap as possible and perhaps to continue down a path toward self-actualization. Of course, severe depression makes this very difficult, but I did learn. I told my therapist that she had one job - to keep me alive. Everything else was icing on the cake.
> ...but that's what DBT was developed to do and it has worked for me. After two suicide attempts and at least seven hospitalizations over five years, I have been hospital free for nearly five years. Not depression-free, but feel some measure of control over the suicidality.
That's amazing.
Thank you.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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