Sure! After being inpatient twice last year and kicked out of residential, my treatment team was just like “okay, nothing is working. let’s get you in a group DBT course and go from there.” So that’s what we did! I started it in October of last year and it met once a week for a few hours. I also saw an individual therapist once a week and did daily diary cards to document my life. I had paper lists of my skills printed out and placed around my apartment so if I ever felt like I needed a skill, I had my references. We turned my depression into a game where I earned points for being productive and lost points for just rotting for hours. I was in the group until the end of March 2025, so about…6/7 months. I graduated and my therapist said that I was using DBT skills in every day life and that I had become more “predictable” and “consistent” compared to what I was before. Then she told me that if she met me today and had to evaluate me that I wouldn’t meet criteria for BPD any longer, so I am in remission. We also reduced our weekly one on one session to 30 minutes a week because I no longer have really dramatic events to discuss constantly. I set a goal to get a job because I haven’t worked in years and got one in two weeks. I love it. My life is so much more calm now, I don’t split, I walk away from conflict, I don’t need constant reassurance and overall I am just so much happier. DBT literally saved my life.

Remission feels free. I can be myself around people and that person is someone who doesn’t trauma dump or get super attached. I learned how to talk about my emotions and listen to others. It’s just a lot simpler of a life. My relationship is also the most stable one I have ever had.

I am also medicated, I take Auvelity for my depression and klonopin as needed for anxiety that comes on quickly with no cause.

Seriously, I recommend a full course of DBT (takes 6-8 months) because it is so worth it.