The cool thing about Robin is when she gives you praise it's like being showered in glitter from god himself (or herself, or itself.)

Thank you =]

I finally contributed to an article and now I'm ridiculously nervous and anxious about it and requiring validation. Even if you say it's terrible. I just need to know. So when you get a chance, could you please read what I've written and let me know whether or not it's good? Thanks in advance.

The DBT book that all the facilitators that run my group work out of is "Skills Training for Borderline Personality Disorder" or something like that - but Marsha Linehan (I think that's how you spell her name) seems to be the authority on it, so I'd assume anything written by her would be useful.

As a client, obviously I only have the worksheets and the stuff we read through, but there's a crapload of resources available. =]

I'm pretty good (in fact my team says I'm a bit high but I'll take that over suicidal any day of the week), I have a pending court case which apparently is likely to result in pre-sentence measures such a psychiatric evaluation by forensic psych - which I'm not overly enthused about as they're likely to add to or change my diagnosis.

But . . . on a more positive note, I'm still persevering with DBT and although it's really difficult, I kind of wish more therapists had been able to explain to me sooner that it's useful for all sorts of things, not just borderline personality disorder. I'm more or less bipolar and I find it useful, and I've talked to loads of people with a MDD diagnosis who say they'd be interested in doing it to . . .

It's so good that you're excited about your work!