Dr. K's advice is excellent. I think he's absolutely right.
DPDR fundamentally entails a tension between, on the one hand, the part of your mind I would call the "agent," and on the other hand the part he calls the "observer". In the past, the reason "mindfulness didn't work for me" was because I was trying hard to feel the way I "used to", instead of embracing this "new experience". The advice Dr. K gives is essentially to sit with the observer part of your mind in order to ameliorate the tension created between it and the agent by forcefully trying to convince it that it is experiencing something that it is not. Will this "get rid of" DPDR? I don't think so, but it certainly makes being more bearable.
DPDR fundamentally entails a tension between, on the one hand, the part of your mind I would call the "agent," and on the other hand the part he calls the "observer". In the past, the reason "mindfulness didn't work for me" was because I was trying hard to feel the way I "used to", instead of embracing this "new experience". The advice Dr. K gives is essentially to sit with the observer part of your mind in order to ameliorate the tension created between it and the agent by forcefully trying to convince it that it is experiencing something that it is not. Will this "get rid of" DPDR? I don't think so, but it certainly makes being more bearable.
