Is DBT For You?

DBT addresses five areas of regulation difficulties. If you or someone you care about experience(s) some of the features in the following categories, DBT may help:

Emotional – problems with mood lability and anger
Interpersonal – chaotic relationships and fears of abandonment
Self – confused sense of self, sense of emptiness
Behavioral – suicidal or non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors, impulsivity
Cognitive – distorted thinking patterns, paranoia

To help determine if DBT and you, or someone you care about, are a good fit, please ask yourself these questions.

Do you or does someone you care about:

• experience painful emotions that can’t seem to be changed?
  
  
• seem to be more emotionally sensitive and vulnerable than others?
  
  
• have frequent conflict with family members, friends, and romantic partners?
  
  
• often feel disappointed by others?
  
  
• have trouble saying no or being assertive in an effective way?
  
  
• experience confusion about emotions and where they are coming from?
  
  
• regularly feel numb or empty?
  
  
• engage in behaviors that make things worse and cause regret such as using drugs or alcohol, binge eating, binging and purging, or shoplifting?
  
  
• have a history of engaging in suicidal or non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors?

If the answer is yes to, at least, some of these questions, DBT skills training may be for you or someone you care about.