Since entering the social work field, I have been exposed to many disorders, therapies, frameworks, and strategies in my studies. My worldview for most of my life has been that I would never need to use any treatment or skill, because I wasn't "broken" or "too disadvantaged" to have acquired the education to "know better." But, as I progressed in my education, I came to realize that everyone is constantly learning and using the skills they acquire to function better in everyday life. For me, I found that the skills within Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) treatment best addressed the areas I was lacking. DBT was originally developed to focus on individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). As described by the National Institute of Mental Health, the criteria an individual must meet to be diagnosed with BPD are some of the following: extreme emotional reactions, a pattern of intense and stormy relationships with family, a self-image or sense of distorted and unstable self. self, impulsive and dangerous behaviors, recurrent suicidal/self-harming behaviors, intense and highly changeable moods, chronic feelings of emptiness/boredom, inappropriate and intense anger, and stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms (nd). To meet the needs of these complex symptoms, a four-module skills training group known as “DBT skills” was developed, 1) mindfulness, 2) interpersonal effectiveness, 3) emotion regulation, and 4) distress tolerance (Feigenbaum , 2008). The DBT model assumes that individuals with bipolar disorder are lacking in the areas of interpersonal skills, self-regulation, and distress tolerance and recognizes that an individual's personal and environmental factors are influential. .and personally. As I mentioned previously, I have always had a difficult relationship with my mother. I felt like nothing I did was good enough and the things I accomplished were ignored to the point that I felt like my life didn't matter at all. Why I was so fixated on my mother's approval is a topic for discussion in another article, but according to such social contingencies an oscillation between emotional inhibition and extreme emotional reactivity occurs in the child. In support of these propositions, research has found that parental punishment or minimization of emotional expression is correlated with children's susceptibility to frequent or intense negative emotions (e.g., Eisenberg, Fabes, & Murphy, 1996) and with a low social-emotional competence (e.g., Jones, Eisenberg, Fabes, and MacKinnon, 2002).