About Come to Find Out

What the hell is this?

"Come to Find Out" is a multimedia blog that adopts a scrapbook, collage-style format to share personal stories related to co-occurring mental health diagnoses, traumatic brain injury, childhood trauma, addiction, recovery, and a learning disability while giving access to Dialectical Behavior Therapy resources, taught badly by paper dolls using blog, infographics, and links. 

Our "Come to Find Out" blog is designed and encourages readers to share their own experiences and insights related to mental health, caregiving, recovery, and survival, creating a sense of community and support. You are invited to share your stories of survival and recovery. You can write under your own name, or as one of the paper dolls to protect your privacy. 

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Why paper dolls? 

Paper dolls symbolize the transformation we need to make to recover from painful experiences, our own mistakes, and build lives worth living. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is proven to be a great treatment for anyone suffering from PTSD, or personality disorders, and is generally good life skills for anyone to have in their toolbox. 

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So what? Why use paper dolls to talk about DBT?

DBT is content-heavy therapy. It is 34 skills that we learn by practicing in community with each other. That can make access difficult for many working adults. Further, treatment is expensive. The goal of this website is to provide resources for learning and living the skills including sharing about your own experience via the stories blog.