Atlanta DBT Center
Georgia's first comprehensive DBT Clinic is proud to be the the site of field research for the newly published DSM V
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Programs & Structure
highlights, videos, & examples of BPD, & the DBT theoretical perspective
(we will cont. to add to this page...)
One of the core issues that patients who come to DBT will find is a constant under- or over-regulating of emotional experiences. There are 3 main dialectics that are pervasive in this battle for self-control.
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emotional vulnerability & self-invalidation: highly sensitive person telling self that one shouldn’t feel that way
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active passivity and apparent competence: responding to problems passively in the face of insufficient help while communicating in way that will imply capability 'if' certain 'reasonable' conditions are met
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unrelenting crisis and inhibited grieving: person creates and is controlled by incessant aversive events (address a crisis with a dysfunctional behavior that leads to another crisis.)
Often, the very behaviors that appear life-threatening are actually behaviors that are life-saving. In the face of an imperceivable ability to tolerate or survive a difficult emotion or situation, self-harming behaviors, even though temporarily, are emotion stabalizing. It is very difficult and quite painful to make a choice between self-harm and perceived non-survival--to feel as if those are the only two choices available. Here is a short video that depicts the emotions, pain, vulnerability, difficulties of people suffering with BPD.
The following is a video of stories and commentary by experts........
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In people suffering from emotions that they can’t control, there is a transaction between two forces that contribute to the unforgiving emotionality. There’s the inherited (nature) part—the genetics behind a person’s reaction spectrum, and then there’s the environmental (nurture) factors that help to diminish or escalate various features of a person’s response style.
