When Marsha Linehan, PhD first shared her life’s story with the world she revealed that at the age of 18 she had been institutionalized due to self-harming and suicidal behaviors, likely as a result of Borderline Personality Disorder. The place where she made this landmark presentation was the Institute of Living in Hartford Connecticut – the exact same Institution she had been admitted to as a teenager. This is the true story of a young girl who, after spending over two years as a patient in a mental institution, went on to develop Dialectical Behavior Therapy. DBT is now recognized as one of the the most successful treatments in the world for Borderline Personality Disorder and suicidal behaviors.