G. Linehan Quotes
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.
You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.
The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.
Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.
It's frightening that skepticism has to be a movement, because you're just arguing that reality is reality. What a waste of energy, in a way.
It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not reality.
Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.
I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.