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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I'm so glad you decided to apply for staff! =D Welcome to the HelpLINK team. Feel free to PM me any time (you were always welcome to do that before, but now you can also PM me about staff stuff - so exciting!).
I'll definitely read over it tomorrow. =) I was going to do it today, but saw it was a lot of new information and didn't have time to thoroughly go over it all.
I finally contributed to an article and now I'm ridiculously nervous and anxious about it and requiring validation. Even if you say it's terrible. I just need to know. So when you get a chance, could you please read what I've written and let me know whether or not it's good? Thanks in advance.
The DBT book that all the facilitators that run my group work out of is "Skills Training for Borderline Personality Disorder" or something like that - but Marsha Linehan (I think that's how you spell her name) seems to be the authority on it, so I'd assume anything written by her would be useful.
As a client, obviously I only have the worksheets and the stuff we read through, but there's a crapload of resources available. =]
I'll keep my fingers crossed for your court case, and for any measures that are taken in the future as a result of the proceedings. I'm glad DBT has been useful for you! Sadly, that is something my university's program did NOT educate us on (I understand there are many theories and treatment modalities out there, but considering that DBT seems to be increasing in popularity, I found it a bit strange...). I've been looking at a DBT workbook online, and am thinking about purchasing it so I can educate myself on all the little details of the process. I doubt I'll be using DBT with my current internship (grief counseling), but I may need it if I get the second internship I applied for this week.
I'm pretty good (in fact my team says I'm a bit high but I'll take that over suicidal any day of the week), I have a pending court case which apparently is likely to result in pre-sentence measures such a psychiatric evaluation by forensic psych - which I'm not overly enthused about as they're likely to add to or change my diagnosis.
But . . . on a more positive note, I'm still persevering with DBT and although it's really difficult, I kind of wish more therapists had been able to explain to me sooner that it's useful for all sorts of things, not just borderline personality disorder. I'm more or less bipolar and I find it useful, and I've talked to loads of people with a MDD diagnosis who say they'd be interested in doing it to . . .
Hey, Jess! Things are going well. I'm exhausted after four weeks of training for my internship (and not done yet!), but I'm so excited to be involved with this organization. =) How about yourself?