The Hulk Uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy On Marvel’s new She Hulk Attorney at Law, Hulk is teaching his newly transformed She Hulk cousin Jennifer Walters how to emotionally regulate using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT is a real therapy created by Marsha Linehan for those like myself with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Hulk’s way of…
Tag: BPD and Biosocial Theory
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Behind My Mona Lisa Smile – What BPD Feels Like For Me
What My BPD Feels Like Mona Lisa Smile In that odd way how there are no coincidences, I felt compelled to add my picture with the Mona Lisa. I Googled why the Mona Lisa is so famous and found this explanation from the Britannica Website, Why Is The Mona Lisa So Famous: The unknown identity…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Anxious – Ambivalent (Preoccupied) Attachment Style & Fear of Abandonment
Jennifer May, PhD – Great DBT Resource on YouTube As I prepare for more focused Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) sessions with my therapist, I found a fantastic DBT resource on YouTube – Jennifer May, PhD. She has a DBT video for every part of the intensive therapy, as well as many other helpful videos such…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Gratitude For A Wild & Crazy Life
If I Could Go Back and Do My Life Over Again… Would I? I think most adults have either had this thought or been asked this question. Recently, while eating my morning snack in the staff room, a teacher asked me if I would go back and do my life over again. I started to…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder – Amber Heard VS Johnny Depp
Anger From The Amber Heard & Johnny Depp Mudslinging Trial I can’t even really type this without filling with anger. All I know is that, according to the news, Johnny Depp hired a psychiatrist to determine Amber Heard’s state of mind – her state of mind being she has Borderline Personality Disorder and Histrionic Personality…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – The Pros and Cons of Medical THC & CBD
Open License to Find My Own Dosage In the spring of 2020, while living in British Columbia, I began taking medically prescribed CBD for anxiety. I had open license – at a significant financial cost as medically prescribed THC and CBD is not covered under my insurance plan – to legally buy high quality THC…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Starting EMDR – Creating New Pathways To Calm
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing I’m not spending a lot of time explaining how Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) specifically works. My reasoning for this is that I can focus too much on intellectualizing a process rather than letting the process happen. For me, this can be an avoidance tactic rather than diving…
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Is This Effective & Willing Hands Half Smile & The Middle Path
Is This Effective? Ideas for practicing effectiveness is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) mindfulness technique from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, by Marsha M. Linehan. There is a step-by-step process outlined in the above mentioned worksheets that, as I applied it, truly helped me begin to observe my intense anger and hostility –…