Building a Life Worth Living

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As a teen, Marsha Linehan experienced suicidal ideation and was sent to an institution for the mentally unwell. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent more than three decades working with survivors. Marsha Linehan holds absolutely nothing back, making good on the vow she made as a young woman to escape hell and help others do the same. In Building a Life Worth Living, she shares about her own experience with BPD and suicidality and thus fights the stigma that runs rampant in academic psychology against those with mental health issues. Uważam, że jest to książka, którą powinno się czytać przed zetknięciem się z wątkiem samobójstwa w ramach fikcji.

This book--with its fierce honesty and, for the careful reader, practical advice--will help anyone who has struggled to build a life worth living.

Of course, it had been in reality the story of my life and I felt like I still had no idea how to handle what I was going through. What I have instead are 'lightbulb memories," bright moments of recollection sparsely scattered across a dark canvas. She vowed to learn about her condition as a teen, and fight to make sure others would not go through her version of ‘hell’. I loved that her famous DBT workbook was published the day before her 50th birthday, just as she dreamed. The Institute of Living had been an important part of my life, and I therefore thought it would be a good venue for me to give the talk I was planning.

I have done many hard things in my life, most prominent of which was having to come to terms with a totally unexpected complete and devastating breakdown of me, of who I was in the world, which you will get a glimpse of shortly.a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy.