I'm now back at home and - as my success thread shows - I did profit from the DBT programme I went to. It's practical, solution oriented tactics and strategies to improve the way you manage your emotions, your thoughts and the situations you're in. Useful for everybody, I'd say. You're kind of climbing out of the swamp of your emotional involvement onto a higher plane from where you can watch, describe and evaluate what's going on down there. You begin to recognise connections and identify structures. The chaos doesn't look so bad when you see it from afar. It's all much less overwhelming.
I'm on the waiting list for another round of two weeks in-patient treatment, actually.
I got some homework for the meantime: Make myself more aware of my judging + identify and write down my negative basic assumptions.
I also copied some chapters/work sheets from the Manual For Interactive DBT For Borderline Patients (title as I recall it; I mention it in my previous post), which is pretty well fitted to the target audience. Very respectful. I was surprised. I'm used to the approach of social trainings for inmates, which are horrible at targeting.
