Good afternoon, everyone.

It's Dr. Niagara again, our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Thanks for another fun week of all your comments and posts and emails and texts and phone calls.

Again, as I always say, it's the highlight of my week in terms of doing this.

Mental health in the United States, at least I can speak from Massachusetts

and probably from across the country, is running rampant this time of year. When it's getting

dark at 4 o'clock, it just affects all of our moods, and I think none of us are immune to

seasonal depression or anxiety and it's just a

tough time of year with the holidays coming around so I hope all of you guys are doing well and

it's great like again when I get text messages that people have finally made their first appointment

with a therapist

or they're getting in for a neuropsychievel or they're coming to see me.

It makes doing this every week truly meaningful.

So thank you.

So Julie is with me today and she's going to do a majority of this show because the focus of this is dialectical behavior therapy.

Now, for those of you who follow the program, I am not a fan or advocate of DBT, but it is a viable

model that is used primarily in the treatment of borderline personality disorder. I was trained of heavily by the, the,

the gurus in the field of cognitive behavioral therapy, which really is devoid of emotion in

terms of treatment. You're focusing on cognitions and you're focusing on behaviors and emotions are

seen as just the byproduct of it.

Whereas in dialectical behavioral therapy, it was initially developed by Marshall Linnehan.

And she is an individual psychologist with history of borderline personality.

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