Josh Clark

And then people get up and practice these skills in front of others and with others.

But it's not like a group therapy session in the traditional sense.

But that's a huge component of it is group work.

That's another criticism of BPD as its own disorder, that DBT can be used to treat all sorts of different symptoms of all sorts of different disorders.

It just makes sense like that.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah.

But there's also another type of therapy that supposedly works really well for DBT called psychodynamic therapy.

And it is talking about what you went through as a child until you're blue in the face.

But it's more about relating that to how you deal with people in your current life, people in situations.

It's relating it back to it so that it's not just one big confusing blob.

You understand your own behavior better.

As a result of interrogating what you went through as a kid.

And I guess it smells a lot like it believes borderline is like a response to trauma using anger rather than anything else.

Yeah, and then one other thing that really kind of underscores how difficult dealing with people with borderline personality disorder can be.

One of the main components of dialectical behavioral therapy is what's called a therapist consultation team, which is basically a group of therapists working with patients with BPD, having like a blow off steam session about them.

And reminding one another, like, these are people suffering and we need to have empathy for them.

That's how hard it can be to treat people with BPD.

Right.

Yeah, for sure.