Hi y'all. 30 year old person here coming to terms with my ever worsening mental health.

Short backstory: 
I've been homeless and transient or housed and unstable for at least half my life now. I travel a lot as a coping mechanism and ran away as a teenager from a hoarder household with a hyper vigilant mom and religious zealot stepdad. I was severely depressed as a teenager, hurt myself, secretly dated older men, spent forever online, started binge drinking, smoking various substances, etc. I survived CSA and was closeted in a hostile environment. 

Fast forward to now: 
I've been on Medicaid in a several states but only now am in the running (waitlist) for therapy. I finally have a PCP who prescribes me meds for the ADD I had as a child but was never treated for. I take propranolol, a non-scheduled beta blocker for acute anxiety. Chemical interventions are helpful for now, but I've been needing coping skills and perspective.

A DBT group program at the center I'm waitlisted at invited me to join after I passed a screening for DBT. The next module starts in a week. 

*If I start the program, I won't be able to utilize talk therapy when a therapist becomes available.* Coping skills are great-- we want those, but I think I won't be able to manage feeling unheard when I'm a verbal processer, and more than anything, I want to know what else is going on that looks like but *isn't* BPD.

To folks who've taken either path of one before the other, what worked for you. Was it hard to forego talk therapy and dive straight into skills? *I particularly want to hear from folks who haven't had access to lifelong therapy.*