DBT allows the therapist to be more flexible in the treatment without being guided by the specified protocols. This is very efficient in treating people who have quite difficulties in keeping a check on their emotions and specially those with a diagnosis of BPD as these patients often face a various problem which makes it very hard to focus on just single issue in every session. When a patient is experiencing with different or numerous problems, getting to use a highly structured treatment procedure that cure just one of the problems is totally impossible and would unable to get by the patient as the patient will invalidate the process.
Dialectical behavioural therapy helps to cure these following problems
- bipolar disorders
- depression
- anxiety
- binge eating disorder
- bulimia
- chronic pain
- anger
- relationship problems
- grief
It won’t work for everyone. DBT can be a very flexible treatment modality, if used for curing other than borderline bipolar disorder. The different pieces of DBT can be picked and use to cure different clients effectively.
Below mentioned are the basic reasons which can act as main hunting spear for the personality disorder problems. These problems are general in nature and can act as a catalyst for the patients. These should be cured as soon as possible. It may take a long time to be cured fully as it can comes after treatment also with the increasing factors acting as catalyst.
- The poor fit
- The chaotic home
- The abusive home
For most of the patients, some of the DBT skills are required who are mainly affected with the illness other than personality disorders; for instance, some patients won’t actually need the skill distress tolerance or interpersonal effectiveness skills of DBT because they are known to those and well adapted of these skills, but for being more mindful and to manage their emotions efficiently they need extra skills. For those clients who has numerous personality disorder, for them one can use DBT also some other skills which are helpful to eradicate.
Other than this, there are a few DBT skills that can actually help them recover and attain full wellness. Some of them are stated below:
- Distress Tolerance
- Mindfullness
- Reality acceptance
There are many ways through which you attain these. You can either go for the coaching sessions offered by the professionals or if you are not comfortable doing the same, you can even opt for phone coaching.
Ultimately, we can say that if DBT is not used to treat BPD then the treatment is very easy to use and be used to treat any disorder.
