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DBT Peer Connections Podcast
by Rachel Gill
I may have Borderline Personality Disorder, but Borderline Personality Disorder does not have me. When Marsha Linehan came out about her struggles with mental health problems recently, I was inspired and decided to follow her lead by vowing to become a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) therapist so that I may help others build lives worth living as Marsha helped me by creating DBT. A few years later, I am now in phase 3 of DBT, coaching my peers online in DBT skills, am a junior in college with honors, have attended a training with Marsha Linehan, and am already well into planning for graduate school.Some may think that having the label of borderline personality disorder is a mark of shame, disparaging those who bear the diagnosis by the implicative nature of the term borderline personality itself, but I can honestly say that the day I received the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was one of the best days of my lives. The reason is that in giving my problems a definite t
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Introduction to DBT Emotion Regulation with Rachel Gill
This is a brief introduction to emotion regulation as it relates to dialectical behavior therapy. I am a peer with 4 years of experience as a client in a comprehensive DBT program and mean to share what I have learned. I do not claim to treat nor diagnose or otherwise imply that I am a licensed...
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To Safeguard the Public
The feautured podcast is a rough draft outlining my experience in community mental health. What began as an issue of accessing care became a personal mission to bring attention to the disturbing and illegal practices transpiring around County mental health contracting and managed care.
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Ode to Obversion Through The Eyes of Depression
The feautured audio is read from my personal journal and was originally written in 2007. The aim is to offer an intimate portrait of my struggle with depression in order to raise mental health awareness, inspire others to come out of the shadows and share their stories and to encourage art as a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I may have Borderline Personality Disorder, but Borderline Personality Disorder does not have me. When Marsha Linehan came out about her struggles with mental health problems recently, I was inspired and decided to follow her lead by vowing to become a dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) therapist so that I may help others build lives worth living as Marsha helped me by creating DBT. A few years later, I am now in phase 3 of DBT, coaching my peers online in DBT skills, am a junior in college with honors, have attended a training with Marsha Linehan, and am already well into planning for graduate school.Some may think that having the label of borderline personality disorder is a mark of shame, disparaging those who bear the diagnosis by the implicative nature of the term borderline personality itself, but I can honestly say that the day I received the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder was one of the best days of my lives. The reason is that in giving my problems a definite t
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