Marsha M. Linehan Quotes

#1. People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.

Marsha M. Linehan

#2. You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one.

Marsha M. Linehan

#3. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

Marsha M. Linehan

#4. Acceptance is the only way out of hell.

Marsha M. Linehan

#5. A patient's passivity must not be unilaterally interpreted as lack of motivation, resistance, lack of confidence, or the like. Many times, passivity is a function of inadequate knowledge and/or skills.

Marsha M. Linehan

#6. The great thing about treating borderline patients is that it is like having a supervisor always in the room.

Marsha M. Linehan

#7. Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Marsha M. Linehan