Started DBT today

Forgot my E-mail and password to my other account. Anyways

Got a letter on Tuesday saying I had my first appointment/meet with my therapist today for DBT.
We wrote down a few target behaviours etc, and wrote down my plans for the future.

Congrats! (On getting into DBT, not for forgetting your password.) Please, keep us posted!

Yeah, I thought someone had hacked my E-mail, so in a panic, I made up some random complicated E-mail address, and I can't even remember that, let alone the password to that E-mail, or the password I changed on my PF account. Oops xD Having the same problem with other accounts as well. I was so caught in the moment I didn't note it down or make a rememberable E-mail/password(s) ¬¬

Thanks. My next appointment with her is on the 16th April. Apparently I have 6 sessions with her first or something, and then I start the group/therapy.

I'm coming up on the final 2 weeks of my group DBT and I'm coming out rather indifferent. I started on it in hope to quell my rages which pushed friends away. Now that my friends have been completely pushed away, I can conclude that DBT didn't address what I wanted.

yeah Immy..Makes you wonder.

I am still waiting to hear about DBT..I got a funny feeling I won't get it. Godd luck with it Lia. x x

Yes but that's only for you Immy. It's not gonna work for everyone. It's worked for a whole lot of other people I've spoken to.

lia;
Good for you!!
and you are right, not everything works for everyone..
BUT..
you can do it.. we are all here cheering you on.



demitria;
have faith.

Hey myfault...

Cheers

Immy wrote:I'm coming up on the final 2 weeks of my group DBT and I'm coming out rather indifferent. I started on it in hope to quell my rages which pushed friends away. Now that my friends have been completely pushed away, I can conclude that DBT didn't address what I wanted.

Right, but rather than focus on the friends that you pushed away.. Focus on using dbt to control your rages so you don't push future friends away... yes?

You can't necessarily conclude that it hasn't been successful.. Unfortunately, on the road to getting better there will be casualties... Failure for you... would be doing nothing, keeping the same patterns, losing future friends... Success for you is.. acknowledging you lost friends... change patterns... make new friends.. keep new friends... and try to mend fences with old ones..

I'd also like to add that there can be lessons learned from friendships that you ruined.. By asking yourself what did you do wrong? what triggred you? what could you do differently next time? Find your pattern of dysfunctional behavior then try and use dbt to try and find strategies that might work for you in the future... Use your mistakes to learn from..

It's all in how you look at it...

-cbox..

-- Thu Mar 22, 2012 11:56 am --

Lia Interrupted wrote:Yes but that's only for you Immy. It's not gonna work for everyone. It's worked for a whole lot of other people I've spoken to.

lia - I wish you well... .don't get discouraged.. Keep in mind it is NOT uncommon for people to feel lost the first few weeks, but stick with it, because it will come together... Maybe EVERYTHING won't work for you and that's ok...Take in the things that do work for you.. master them.. It will be one less piece of the puzzle that you'll have to worry about..

Good luck.. Feel free to pm with question..

-cbox

Congrats, Lia! I really hope that it works for you.

From what I've heard, you get out of it what you put into it, and if I know our Lia, she's gonna get a WHOLE lot out of this... I'm so happy for you!

Dmitria - the other are right - what works for one may not work for all. I know that DBT is supposed to help get to the root of issues so that you can resolve them, but to my knowledge, rage and anger still is part of the character complex. Don't give up - there are many strategies of therapy out there!!

**hugs to you guys!**

AMP