Decrease Suicide Ideation with Skills Learned in Dialectical Behavior Therapy By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “DBT provided me with a rubric for figuring out what was causing my anxiety, anger or sadness, and new options for how to behave in light of it. Once a week, for the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve […]
Improve Borderline Personality Disorder with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “People with borderline personality disorder can be challenging to treat, because of the nature of the disorder. They are difficult to keep in therapy, frequently fail to respond to our therapeutic efforts and make considerable demands on the emotional resources of […]
Reduce Self-Harming in Adolescents with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “In order to end self-harm, one needs to change one’s whole relationship with oneself, and how one sees oneself. A good starting point is with one’s thoughts. Mindfulness keeps one fully grounded in the present … in the presence of the action of the present moment. Mindfulness helps […]
Virtual Reality Enhances Meditative Experience By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “It seems that a technology that pries your eyes and ears wide open to absorb as much sensory input as possible is working at cross-purposes with a discipline that asks you to forgo distraction, to close your eyes and direct your attention […]
Reduce Self-Injury with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “In order to end self-harm, one needs to change one’s whole relationship with oneself, and how one sees oneself. A good starting point is with one’s thoughts. Mindfulness keeps one fully grounded in the present … in the presence of the action of the present moment. Mindfulness helps one to […]
Improve Borderline Personality Disorder and Reduce Suicidal Thoughts with Mindfulness By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness meditation encourages recognition of the wide palate of human emotions, but also keenly encourages one not to fixate on these temporary feelings. Work in mindfulness meditation includes labeling these emotions in a non-judgmental manner and allowing […]
Fluctuations in Mindfulness Occur with Fluctuations in Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms. By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “mindfulness meditation encourages recognition of the wide palate of human emotions, but also keenly encourages one not to fixate on these temporary feelings. Work in mindfulness meditation includes labeling these emotions in a non-judgmental manner and […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “Through virtual reality, the brain can succumb to compelling evidence that you are actually somewhere else. . . not only putting users in a relaxing location, but also completing the exercises, can shift your mood and teach you to live a more mindful life — overcoming the […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “One problem that clients with borderline personality disorder face is that their behaviors are often ruled by emotions. This frequently leads to destructive behaviors such as drug use, risky sexual encounters, and self-injury. The goal of mindfulness as used in DBT is to get patients to recognize […]
By John M. de Castro, Ph.D. “People who self-injure have often found themselves either the victims of abuse or otherwise powerless and helpless in the midst of terrible circumstances. Self-abuse often provides an escape from overwhelming feelings of isolation, fear, humiliation or fury. Some who self-injure explain that it gives a sense of […]