DBT

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Has anyone done or is doing DBT? (dialectical behaviour therapy used to treat BPD)

I am half way through and really struggling to stick with it. I haven't self harmed since November and I went back to work in May after having 2.5 years off with MH problems which included three lengthy admissions to hospital, two were because I was self harming in a very dangerous way and one was on a section because I believed that God wanted me to kill myself and was acting on that delusion. I now take an anti-psychotic which has stopped all my strange thoughts. I am doing the DBT because my CPN and psychologist said it was the best treatment for me.

I find it so incredibly boring and slow. The group lasts for 2.5 hours and it is just painfully slow at times. The leaders are really nice and I get on with the other girls in the group (although I will admit that one does really annoy me!)

I am not self harming or really having urges and so my 1:1 sessions are largely me and the nurse (who I really really like and get on with) chatting about stuff from my week.

The skills are all just common sense and I never have times in my week when I think I should use a DBT skill.

Everyone says how amazing this treatment is and I am lucky that I have access to it and I know that, but honestly it just feels all fur coat and no knickers.

Does anyone have any experience of DBT? Does it only really kick in once you have finished it?

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Anyone :(

I did dbt for a year. It was boring, and drank beer during the breaks with my mate. It turned out I don't even have bpd.

I'm glad someone else found it boring. There is certainly no beer drinking at my group though

I found it boring because most of the other people in the therapy were much more ill than I was. I could not relate to patients at all. The stuff we went through was boring and unrelated to me as well. We did not have 1to1 sessions. I started in inpatient group first which was slightly better but the outpatient one was sometimes chaotic, because of some patients.

I wonder how we did not get caught from beer drinking. Sometimes I drank on my way there already.

We are all out patients and have chose to be there so it is not loud or anything. I do feel like I am in a different part of my recovery to some of the other girls in my group.