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I've been seeing a new therapist for about a month. After getting a handle on my history and cycle she says that we're going to be doing DBT. Just what IS that. All that I've read about healing BPD says that there is an enormous amount of work that has to be done working through the repressed and previously un-dealt with pain. How does DBT work and fit into that model? I've worked with two other therapists for the past two years. One just flat out didn't want to deal with a BPD patient (I should be paid to be so rude) and the other was simply "Positive Affirmations with Stuart Smalley". I could have gotten just as much help from watching Joel Osteen and for FREE! Needless to say I'm a bit leery and jaded now; willing to get into difficult and painful work, but not wanting another cookie cutter shrink at $150.00 a pop. I need help learning to deal with the chemical changes that cause the cycle of happy and content, to raging and depressed to the point of destruction, followed by the shame and sense or worthlessness. Does DBT really attack that aspect of this disorder or is there another approach that I should seek?