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Marsha Linehan Discusses DBT on video Part 2

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Part 2 of Marsha Linehan discussing DBT.

DBT Skill of the day: Radical Acceptance

When are Reality Acceptance Skills needed?

When painful events happen in your life and you cannot change them, solve them, or make them go away.

Reality Acceptance Skills Set

Radical Acceptance Turning the Mind Willingness

Radical Acceptance

Radical Acceptance is accepting that…

Reality is what it is Everything has a cause Life can be worth [...]

Does Jodi Arias have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?

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First in a series of Marsha Linehan discussing DBT on video

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New series of Marsha Linehan discussing DBT on you tube. I will be posting a series of these talks.

Stop Walking on Eggshells 2nd Edition

Because it is now 10 years old, New Harbinger has decided to publish a second edition of Stop Walking on Eggshells (aka SWOE). I read the first version of SWOE in October of 2005 and re-read it last year just to make sure that my impressions of the book were not rusty. SWOE is by [...]

DBT: Not Just for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

DBT can transform your life and the lives of others. Anyone can use DBT—it is versatile and personable.

DBT: Not Just for Borderline Personality Disorder By KAT DAWKINS

You may think Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is only for those that live with borderline personality disorder. However, I am an example of a person with bipolar disorder [...]

Using the mood disorder questionnaire and bipolar spectrum diagnostic scale to detect bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder among eating disorder patients

Screening scales for bipolar disorder including the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale (BSDS) have been plagued by high false positive rates confounded by presence of borderline personality disorder. This study examined the accuracy of these scales for detecting bipolar disorder among patients referred for eating disorders and explored the possibility of [...]

Active Minds hosts Pershall to combat mental illness stigmas

Pershall spoke about her battle with anorexia, bulimia and borderline personality disorder.

Active Minds hosts Pershall to combat mental illness stigmas

By Daniel Mcinerney

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For three days, Stacy Pershall suffered from violent seizures that left her body bruised and her tongue so badly bitten and swollen that she was unable to talk. [...]

Mindy McCready dies in apparent suicide

The former country star apparently took her own life on Sunday at her home in Heber Springs, Ark. Authorities say McCready died of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot to the head and an autopsy is planned. She was 37, and left behind two young sons.

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HEBER SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) [...]

Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms

Rejection and Pain

People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions.

Defending Against Unpleasant Feelings

Borderline personality disorder patients may use less effective defense mechanisms

(dailyRx News) People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often have trouble dealing with emotions. The way people with BPD deal with unpleasant emotions may [...]