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TIL that Marsha M Linehan, the creator of Dialect Behavior Therapy (DBT) was once an institutionalized patient who was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia beginning her "descent into hell". At 18 she could legally leave on her own and went on to be a professor in psychology, diagnosed with BPD.

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