Help Intensive therapy

[Life_and_Death]

So my therapist is signing me up for intensive dbt (did I remember that right?). What is this? To be more specific how does it differ from non intensive? Is it as scary as it sounds? Am I that broken the first time I go to get help they go straight to antipsychotics and intensive therapy?? (ok that last one was a bit rhetorical but if you want to include as to whether or not you feel that's normal, that's cool too)

 

[Life_and_Death]

After doing a little bit of reading yesterday I think it just means more often. Something like 2 sessions a week or something.

Just thought I'd add this in case someone was curious or knew the actual answer or wanted to add more to it.

 

[specklenought]

Are you doing an intensive course? That could mean like a short period of time, cramming a lot of skills into a shorter timeframe. Or it could mean going to classes more than once a week again depends on the amount of weeks. Tbh DBT usually ppl see as "intense" bc the programs are like 6-12 months along (at least in my experience). But really its like ur learning a new skill, or going to the gym, you gotta do it repeatedly to build a habit so you get a bunch of worksheets and homework and it means that ur talk therapy (if u do that too) gets ~freed~ up to talk about your life rather than just constantly learning skills all the time.