Blog
Welcome to the Blog! Therapy is a process that helps people work through their problems. It is a journey of reflection, change, and growth, and sometimes, humor. I love writing about its application in the real world.
Below are a series of blog articles that aim to normalize mental health, provide you with tips to enhance the quality of your life, share some of our own reflections, and more!
DBT Assumptions: Fault vs. Responsibility
In Marsha Linehan’s book Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder she writes about assumptions about borderline patients and therapy. However, these could easily be assumptions about people and the task of living. Assumption #4 states that “Patients may not have caused all their problems, but they have to solve them anyway.” What exactly does this mean? This means that not everything that happens to us is our fault.