Building a Life Worth Living

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Throughout her extraordinary scientific career, Marsha Linehan remained a woman of deep spirituality.

It showed everyone that one can be depressed and suicidal and can snap out of it and become a legend. I personally did not mind how much Marsha tied everything back to DBT because I love DBT and find it so helpful both for myself and my clinical work. Proceed mindfully, by evaluating the most effective option to take, given the goals, and finally following that option.She would describe them without anything leading up to these events and no explanation as to why they happened. You have to throw yourself into your life as it is, and be open to whatever might be” or said another way in the book, “You can’t think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking”. I don’t know of any other treatment that is so aligned with the person who developed it as DBT is with me.

After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell, too, and to build a life worth living.

learning how to tolerate and accept distress is part of that general change toward self-improvement. I was there to tell the story of how, more than two decades earlier, I had developed a type of behavioral treatment for highly suicidal people, known as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT for short). I was fortunate enough to attend a program that used Marsha's development of DBT therapy and I have continued using the same therapy today.