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Showing posts with label Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. Show all posts

Friday, November 27, 2015

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy


To supplement my post about borderline personality disorder (BPD), I'll comment on a highly effective therapy developed especially for BPD. I, myself, have been through DBT and can attest to its wonderful results. DBT is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). CBT focuses on addressing cognitive distortions (thoughts that assume negative reasons for a potentially neutral situation) and practicing changing the way you think about the situation. DBT focuses on accepting the way you think, but changing the way you react to the thoughts.