Good Evening, World!!! I am finally home from work and wanted to inform you my reader the death a mental health legend. The legend is Marsha Linehan. She is the creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy also known as DBT. Marsha Linehan not only created DBT but taught for many years at the University of Washington here in Seattle before retiring in 2019. Marsha Linehan passed away this past Tuesday (November 10, 2026) and it is extremely sad for those of us who were greatly touched by her life and her creation of DBT.

If it was not for DBT and an intensive two-year outpatient DBT program I graduated from on December 1, 2005, I would not be writing this blog post at the moment. I truly believe if it wasn’t for DBT and the hard I put into DBT as well all the support I received from the staff of the DBT program I was in, I most likely would be dead at my own hands. I am so grateful for DBT and how it has helped me have a life worth living as well as be in recovery. If it wasn’t for all the hard work I have done in DBT as well continuing on with therapy, I would not have recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) by no longer meeting the criteria of it, much become a peer support specialist. DBT helped me create a life worth live and thankfully it helped me no longer meeting the criteria of BPD.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!