PSYC36H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Marsha M. Linehan, Borderline Personality Disorder
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Marsha linehan was the creator of dbt, she had borderline personality herself. She admitted that she had very severe bpd, she killed to kill herself repeatedly. The truth that she had made and championed. Health illness reveals her own fight. literally the only therapy that works with people with borderline personality disorder, for extreme emotion deregulation. Instable identity: one day you want to be a doctor, one day you want to be a doctor, one day you are dropping school, one day school is all you think about. They have really chaotic relationship with other people: they have extreme ups and downs, they are obsessed with someone and then they might hate them, very hard to be maintained in romantic relationships. Bpd often hurt themselves this is the primary marker: cut themselves, put their hair out, suicidal tendencies, a lot of them die from bpd. Mostly women its true, but think about the stereotypical images of emo.
