23 Jun 2011
In the news: Marsha Linehan comes out (about mental illness)
Posted in Borderline Personality Disorder, Mental Health News, Personal Stories By Hanners Blackthorne On June 23, 2011Marsha Linehan, the psychotherapist famous for developing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), initially for people with Borderline Personality Disorder, is now talking publically for the first time with her own struggle with mental illness. As it turns out, DBT might never have existed if not for her own experience with mental illness.
Read the story at the New York Times.
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Hanners Blackthorne
I am a web developer, and the creator of QueerMentalHealth.org. I run my own IT business. For this reason I have chosen to remain anonymous, so I have chosen the pseudonym "Hanners Ellicott-Chatham", which is a character from one of my favourite web comics, Questionable Content, by Jeph Jacques. am a trans woman who lives with Bipolar Disorder.
Thanks so much for posting this amazing story!