My plan for doing self-therapy

 Hi ^^ 

I wanted to change my blog a bit!

For now I have been summarizing what I have learned. However, I think it might be more fun to share a bit more. Things would get more messy, but maybe they would also be more me <3

I started learning DBT because my psycologist told me after 3 free sessions that it would be expensive. I don't know how expensive it could possibly be if a childless post poctoral reseacher is told this! 

Anyway, I am confident that I can learn a new field of science. So I searched for a good book to start with. I decided a manual teaching the actual DBT skills would be the best. Especially when it was written by the person who came up with DBT...to fix herself.

The beginning of the book described how to arrange the differrent health care professionals around the patient as well as which schedule to have. 

To feel less overwhelmed and for having a feeling of progress I made myself a cute little study plan: 


On the top I have my goals to remind me why I am doing this. The numbers with w denote the week number in ly plan. The black line is my actual state of progress. The text on each line is the section of the book and the text after the brackets is the module.

As you can see, I will soon reach the emotional regulation module, which I think I REALLY, REALLY need. 

Speaking of needs... if you have an opinion about whether I should write as I have or to make things more messy, let me know :p

Comments

  1. aboomination3 February 2022 at 00:21

    +1 for messy - nothing to lose, since you can still go back to this format later, but now I'm curious :p

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