
Personally, I recommend this book for a sort of “intro to dbt”. If the skills in this book turned out to be useful, I recommend mentioning formally trying dbt with your psychologist (this is merely a self help book for the interim): https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=6&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj36qGIzO7nAhXomeAKHUIIDvgQFjAFegQIBBAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chapters.indigo.ca%2Fen-ca%2Fbooks%2Fthe-dialectical-behavior-therapy-skills%2F9781572245136-item.html&amp;usg=AOvVaw29a7KYizl7WJPbiGZlwn4W

The one sort of dated thing in the book is the necessity of “taking comfort in a higher power”. For an irreligious person like me, I substituted “the power of natural selection/biology” for this and everything still worked (I mention this only in case you find yourself in a similar predicament). Many of these exercises can be useful if you need to take yourself out of a situation in order to come back at it rationally; these are skills usually unfortunately lacking in someone with bpd.