DBT may be for you if you experience any of the following symptoms:
Emotions
- Heightened emotional sensitivity
- Quick and intense emotional reactions
- Slow return to normal mood
- Chronic problems with depression, anxiety, anger or anger expression
Behavior
- Repeated suicide threats or attempts
- Self-harm behavior such as cutting and burning
- Relationship difficulties including hypersensitivity to criticism, disapproval, intimacy or fear abandonment
- Impulsive and potentially self-destructive behavior in areas such as binge eating and purging, alcohol or drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, and gambling or spending sprees
Thinking
- Extreme (black or white) thinking
- Difficulty with problem-solving and decision making
- Unstable self-image or sense of self
- “Detached” thinking, ranging from mild problems with inattention to episodes of complete dissociation
- Obsessive/Compulsive rumination