Dialectical Behavioral Therapy


The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance
Alain de Botton
It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.
Alain de Botton

DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also getting better at keeping another dialectic in mind: On the one hand, the disorder decimates all relationships and social functions, so you're basically wandering in the wasteland of your own failure, and yet you have to keep walking through it, gathering the small bits of life that can eventually go into creating a life worth living. To be in the desolate badla ...more
Kiera Van Gelder, The Buddha and the Borderline

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