I'm Barbara Schroeder and for this bonus episode we're in conversation with Dr. Romani

Dervosala.

She's been our guide through all six main episodes of Bad Bad Thing and Dr. Romani is

a clinical psychologist and author, one of her popular books is Should I Stay or Should

I Go, Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist.

Dr. Romani is going to help us respond to comments and criticisms and questions that we've

been getting and seeing online from everybody who's been listening.

And Dr. Romani, I don't think I've ever told you this, but I wanted to tell you that before

I contacted you, I had interviewed other therapists for this podcast and all of them were qualified

absolutely great.

But when I gave you some of the materials and I listened to what you were saying, your

incisiveness and your wisdom, you're the absolute right fit for this.

And I've been to a lot of therapists, I've interviewed a lot of therapists.

So thank you for bringing your expertise and your, you have a great way of communicating

in regular language to people and it's incisive and we appreciate that.

Well, I appreciate you Barbara, thank you for saying that.

I think it was 22 years of teaching undergraduates.

You better put things in simple language, are they're going to fall asleep?

I still think they fell asleep, but I had to learn that was a strange skill for me to have

to develop over such a long time.

Let me ask you, have you been getting any reaction from the podcast?

You know, what's so interesting in a case like this, yeah, definitely and some of it is

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