"MBT treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder"

Well I have been in therapy treatment programs since 2012 and I've had a few different types of therapy but the one that really helped me was mentalisation-based therapy (MBT). Which I've just finished I completed the 13 month program in March this year, and it was the most difficult and painful therapy I had ever had.

Its not easy at all, my attendance was brilliant I did attend every single session, every single week without fail. I had a real personal reason to which I couldn't allow myself to not turn up even once. That personal thing that drove me is what kept my attendance from being so well, also what helped me was I was starting to see what MBT was doing to me, it was slowly changing everything I would do, my reaction to things had changed and my general thinking had changed. It wasn't a light bulb moment, it was rather like a dripping tap on a brick, eventually the water will break down the brick, eventually. it was like that, I noticed the changes and loved them personally, I taken it all on board without any fightback. I gave MBT every single thing I had inside me and I got something out of it, something that's quiet special, I got my life back, a life I hadn't had before.

When I came into the MBT program, in my own opinion I was an angry, lost and broken man and through MBT I was able to learn the tools to make myself better and I was able to take everything that I wanted to run away from, I had to sit in that chair and face it there and then. One thing I really really appreciated within the MBT treatment is that the therapists don't go around the houses, MBT is very direct and to the point and challenges you on like a face to face level. I loved that, but at the time I hated it, but looking back, its that direct approach that for me personally helped me more than anything.

The therapists I had was the BEST I had ever received. I've had so many awful professionals treat me, but the 2 I had was just the best. There is not one single thing I think needs to be improved for the MBT treatment. The only thing I would love to happen within the NHS is like a meet up meeting where us within the group therapy have a session where we could all meet up at the place we received therapy and in the room if possible, I think if this was offered, me personally id love it, that would be great that very small thing would mean a lot. To me it would mean so much, because you have that worry when ending therapy that your being left or dropped, because when it ends it ends. So this little meeting thing would be brilliant for the clients that use the service.

But that's more of a general point, for me MBT is PERFECT for Borderline Personality Disorder. It was the BEST therapy to help  me.  It was this therapy that gave me something I've always wanted since childhood, not living with a diagnosis. I'm free now of all my ills I went into therapy with. living 21 years with mental pain and 7 being treated for mental health issues and 5 years in therapy programs. it was MBT that gave me everything I wanted.