Renown Therapist Discloses Her Personal Diagnosis

Marsha Linehan is a powerful example of how a diagnostic label does not have to be a life sentence.  The article below is about a practitioner who is world renown for her work with individuals struggling with overwhelming emotions and instability.  As the creater of  Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), she has developed a treatment modality that that helps individuals struggling with the very issues she found so profoundly life-limiting.  As she shows, people with mental health struggles can do great things :

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/coming-out-with-mental-illness/?ref=health