Is the Decision Maker Belief Process a self-help approach? Can people use it on themselves?
Although a few people have told me they have used the Decision Maker Belief Process on themselves successfully, most people will not be able to. For most people their beliefs are so “the truth” that it is difficult to get outside them sufficiently to follow all the steps of the Decision Maker Belief Process, especially the one that requires you to find other possible interpretations for the events that led to the belief. It is easier for someone to facilitate someone else in the DMBP. If someone already knows the belief she wants to eliminate and knows when it was formed, it isn’t very difficult for most people to run through the steps of the DMBP and assist that person to eliminate the belief. The problem arises when someone knows a dysfunctional pattern she wants to eliminate and doesn’t know all the beliefs that are causing it. Finding all the beliefs, sometimes as many as fifty or more for such problems as eating disorders, requires training and skill that the average person doesn’
