CBT or DBT?

Posted by Ilene on September 15, 2004, at 12:27:28

I'm starting to see a psychiatric resident at a large university medical center for meds. They also offer therapy--either CBT or DBT. Psychotherapy never helped me in the past, but I felt like my last meeting with the pdoc was a little too brief. I was seeing my old pdoc for an hour every week. We talked about meds and other stuff, but I never felt like it was formal psychotherapy.
Anyway, the question is CBT, DBT, or nothing? I'm interested in DBT because I think it's designed to overcome the limitations of CBT, but I don't know if I'm a suitable candidate because I don't have borderline personality disorder. I'm intractably depressed.
Downside: the university is about an hour's drive from here. Upside: my insurance would probably cover it.
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CBT or DBT? Ilene 9/15/04
Re: CBT or DBT? alexandra_k 9/15/04
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Re: CBT or DBT? » Ilene fallsfall 9/15/04
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Re: CBT or DBT? » Ilene gardenergirl 9/15/04

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