Tag Archive for: What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy

NEW DBT Book: Stop Sabotaging: A 31 Day Challenge to Change Your Life by Debbie Corso

Now Available! Click HERE to purchase! Stop Sabotaging: A 31 Day DBT Challenge to Change Your Lifeby Debbie Corso, author of Healing From Borderline Personality Disorder: My Journey Out of Hell Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy Here’s what the book covers: what sabotaging is why, as emotionally dysregulated individuals, we tend to do it, and  strategies […]

DBT Golden Nugget: What is Borderline Personality Disorder, and What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy? (Video)

I came across this informative, helpful video that answers two questions that I often receive from readers: What is Borderline Personality Disorder? What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy? Abbie Taylor, an MSW graduate student at Binghamton University addresses these questions in this short documentary (about 15 minutes in length.) What did you learn from this video? […]

How DBT Has Been Helping Me | Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

As I’ve previously shared, I was diagnosed with BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) during an IOP (Intensive Outpatient Program) at my local hospital.  I had been doing pretty well, prior to my “breakdown” that led to the hospitalization.  I was working, my relationship with my significant other was stable. It took a trigger to catapult me […]

Does DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) Work? My Story: A Case Study

I am currently attending two DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) classes per week. One is an ongoing group/class that goes through the four major skill sets: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. The other just focuses on the Distress Tolerance skill set. Things have been going well. Before DBT, I felt as if I […]