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Re: lonely/dbt/borderline?/crazy?

Posted by emmanuel98 on January 10, 2012, at 18:12:38

In reply to lonely/dbt/borderline?/crazy?, posted by paisleygirl on January 9, 2012, at 22:27:55

My psychiatrist also wanted me to do DBT, both with a trained individual therapist and a group. DBT was actually developed not for borderline personality disorder, but for people with overwhelming suicidal urges and urges to self-harm. So doing DBT doesn't mean your p-doc sees you as borderline and, even if she did, so what? Borderline just means you have difficulty regulating emotions. A lot of psych patients have difficulty regulating emotions. That's what DBT is so helpful for.

My p-doc, who is not big on diagnostic labels told me that borderline is just a wastebasket diagnosis, for people who are more than neurotic but less than psychotic.


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