RIP Prof. Linehan. DBT is amazing; it probably saved my life when I was in grad school.
While @cdelawalla.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy is right to point out the importance of Linehan's lived experience, we must also reckon with her hiding her lived experience, disclosing her madness only very late in life.
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Madness ("mental illness", in the dominant psy paradigm) remains hugely stigmatized, and it can be especially risky to be open about one's experiences with madness in the field of mental health and in the STEM fields more broadly. Madness is anti-reason, and we're supposed to be hyper-rational.