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Mental health does not, by any means, ensure a healthy life or healthy choices. However, many people claim that practices such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) should be reserved only for the mentally ill, the people who need help controlling their lives. But normal, “healthy” college students need help as well; the majority of them have experience with violence, suicidal ideations, and binge drinking. These are all examples of dysregulations in their lives, the very problems that DBT promises to help with. College students, both the healthy and the mentally ill, could all benefit from practicing DBT.

Mentally healthy people make some very unhealthy choices, but refuse to do anything about it, such as practice Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). We, as a society, squander away practices such as this, claiming that they are only necessary for the mentally ill. We stigmatize them, praising the health of people who make their own terrible decisions- messing up their life without the help of any therapeutic practice. Many college students do just this, experiencing dysregulation by way of binge drinking, suicidal ideation, and relationship violence. This dysregulation could be avoided by practicing DBT regularly, and could help all college students become healthier, happier people.