Testimonies and rambles on various therapies, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
This is the beginning of a page (shrine?? mental health shrine?? IS THAT A THING) where I'm going to write about various therapies I've engaged in, my experiences with them, and helpful skills I've picked up that might be interesting or helpful to others! I'm not sure how detailed I'll get yet, but I just realized this is my freaking webbed site!!! where I can write about whatever I want. It should especially be stuff I'm passionate about, and bro, I'm SERIOUSLY passionate about things like DBT, which I will explain here in my own words eventually--but until I do, here are some links to follow:
Dialectical Behavior Therapy dot Com
Cleveland Clinic dot Org: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
The disclaimer, because Breven is not a therapist, and neither is the Internet
Any information provided here is offered as a humble peer on their own healing journey, and NOT as any kind of professional medical advice. You should always find a health provider to support you through trying new therapies, so find support if you are able! Also, don't replace facilitated therapy with a trained, licensed professional with things like AI chatbots or even human-curated web sites alone. Doing so can be dangerous because these things are simply not adequate replacements for human-facilitated healing and medical support, no matter what you're dealing with.
Also, please do NOT contact me with questions or for personal help with your therapy journey! I am not a therapist and do not want to be one! This page is intended to get you curious about these things if you've never heard of them, and to tell you what they've been like for me. I am not here to provide you with personal support or an outlet, or whatever you're seeking. Sorry, I'm simply unable to fulfill that role! And buddy, if you do contact me as though I'm your therapist, or tell me I'm your only hope left, that you're about to really do it this time, etc., etc.--if you basically start wielding your own issues as reasons that I should give you a massive amount of my emotional energy--like... Love and light, but so help me, I will block the hell out of you. Do not do this, please. You'll just embarrass us both! There is support out there for you, it simply isn't me. You'll find it!!
(I'll probably want to include some additional links here)
What else... Uh... I'm trying to sketch this page out...
Talk about getting to DBT therapy and what it took
blah blah bleep bloop
Emotional Regulation
Beep boop boppa doppa beep
Distress Tolerance
Boppa boppa beep
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Yup it's the interpersonal effectiveness skill set which is so hard but so worth it
Distress Tolerance
For when you're way out of your window of tolerance
Mindfulness
The glue that helps it all stick together, AKA what you may be avoiding the most without realizing it
Other Good, Good Shit
Write about uhhh supporting techniques including The Dime Game. I'm sure the Dime Game is part of the IE ciricculum or something but just make sure everyone knows it's a freakin app on ya phone and you can play it in 30 seconds to figure out objectively how you should ground your actions interpersonally based on the facts. shit is awesome.
All right I'm tired I'll work on this some more later. Go my DBT keywords