It was a difficult process'­and, more than that, I was about to reveal publicly for the first time extremely intimate details about my life that for decades I had kept a carefully guarded secret, outside of a few very close friends and my family. I am guessing there were things her family noticed and could have helped with had they known what skills to use.

She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking. As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood. As other reviewers have pointed out, I often lost track of which decade of her life I was reading about. Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really work-and how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living. In an trajectory having a philosophical orientation towards behaviourism, I was surprised to see no mention of B.Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! She would sit down and listen and remind those most troubled in the world that their life is most certainly, A life worth living. I also appreciated her honesty about her academic experiences, such as the bias she faced from psychoanalytic folks as well as the sexism she fought during her journey to develop DBT. I was standing in front of an audience of about two hundred in a large auditorium at the Institute of Living, a renowned psychiatric institution in Hartford, Connecticut.

Very interesting and moving because the author who is a therapist suffered from a very deep depression and tried to commit suicide. I got trained in this approach and loved it - I loved how usable the skills were, how it broke down the separation between "us" and "them" (as many of "us" therapists began integrating these skills into our lives as well), and I loved how many clients were benefitting. Mental health advocates for a long time has been advocating for a change to the term "died by suicide" to combat the stigma around suicide and I sort of assumed that Marsha would know this given the population she works with. It’s knowing that maybe I will have depression or sadness, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t pleasurable things in my life, or that it won’t end.

Her method to treat difficult patients is very successful because she knows first hand what it means to be suicidal. The remarkable memoir of the woman who developed DBT--the true story of how she transformed herself from a suicidal teenager to a world-renowned psychologist thanks to her own lifesaving therapy. DBT (dialectical behavior therapy), is what Marsha created as her best effort to keep her vow and help patients with suicidal behavior.