May I suggest that if you're suffering from PTSD, depression,

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11. Maybe, but this IS actually about personal experience with mental illness

And the expression of personal experience is decidely not my goal for the propsed group, which I hope to be driven by published reports.

I think within this thread there is an important point being made:
Our experiences while perhaps not unique are very idiosyncratic.

DBT and the many subsequent approaches related to Bhuddism argued by Kabat-Zinn and Linehan and her acolytes, work for many. Linehan designed DBT with women in mind and that's the population on which it's validating clinical trials were conducted.

The person to whom I replied has a similar profile to my own. Meditation didn't work for the person to whom I was responding, and DBT and 'mindfulness' didn't work for me. That IS our experience. It's limited and idiosyncratic, but it shouldn't be invalidated. Indeed the realization that I am not alone in my struggle with ineffectiveness is somewhat reassuring. It is not JUST me.

It's probably an important thing to have on record. EVERY therapy DOES NOT work for everyone.

JP is a licensed clinician would probably appreciate that.

I think it's a mistake to be mesmerized by the notion that a safe zone can only include posts which are positive and uplifting. It's really about being empathetic and avoiding comments that could be triggering

No one expects complete positiveness in any other peer-to-peer group, I don't see a useful purpose for that standard here.