So met with the school therapist today and I explained that I just needed a crash course in some type of therapy that would give me immediate coping skills. The therapist I’m currently seeing is really into DBT and mindfulness. However I have never found mindfulness effective before. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy it, I find it very relaxing. But it doesn’t fix anything. It can’t pull me out of crisis mode or make my symptoms stop. She says it will help me build neural pathways so I stop losing control of my emotions but I don’t know.
Maybe therapy isn’t for me. It’s good for venting though. I think the therapist was thrown off by me laughing and smiling as I discussed how I really didn’t enjoy life and had no desire to be here but I’m at this point where talking about my feelings doesn’t make me cry anymore, I’m just numb to it.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy it, I find it very relaxing. But it doesn’t fix anything.
I agree.
I tried the DBT, it didn’t help me. it was a lot of talk that I didn’t understand.
Not tried dbt, but did a 8 week mindfulness course… CBT and schema therapy.
Everyone is different, but mindfulness is very effective for me! The first time I used it the voices went away for 2 hrs.
For me it was a game changer 
I’m working through DBT right now. Bear in mind that my diagnosis is Schizoaffective, and I have hypomanic periods where I have a real hard time with impulse control and acting out in unhealthy ways, so DBT is kind of designed for that type of issue.
DBT is great for me. Mindfulness is just the beginning, you have to learn and practice mindfulness and then go on to the other modules in order for it to do a whole lot of good. But once you get to things like distress tolerance and emotional regulation, it can be very very helpful. I think it would help with Schizophrenia at least in some ways. It helps a lot of people with paranoia… It can change problems with your thinking, such as paranoia and/or delusions, but it won’t help with hallucinations.