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DBT teaches clients how to accept their symptoms and problems while making positive change.[xi] DBT is delivered as a structured course that usually lasts around a year. Clients learn how to monitor their moods, identify the link between their thoughts and their feelings, and tolerate distress. They also learn how to think more rationally and apply

rigidly following this rule can lead people to neglect their own needs, and that can contribute to many psychological problems, such as depression.

These behaviours are the most harmful and make the negative beliefs very difficult to change independently. This programme

we can re-learn a new internal dialogue that serves us better.

these kinds of patterns are tenacious because they’re created by unconscious feelings and negative beliefs that took hold in childhood.

A mind that is not aware will produce illness. That’s not a criticism, however. I don’t know

Before Ellis and Beck spun their theories, it was dogma that all depression was manic-depressive illness.

Debra Safer’s book The DBT Solution for Emotional Eating.

5. Although someone’s past might play a role in shaping their cognitive distortions, it’s more productive to focus on the present.