Good afternoon, everyone. It is Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

I look forward to doing this every week on Sundays.

I really appreciate everybody who's reached out and all the thanks and the gratitude for the program that Julie and I do.

You know, Julie ebbs and flows.

If the spirit moves her, as she says, she'll pop on.

So, again, if I haven't gotten back to you, I will do my best.

I try to respond all the texts and voicemails and

emails. I'll give you all that contact information at the end of this episode. So I do this

program, as you know, very organically. And the DSM is our Bible in psychology and psychiatry.

It what allows us to have the structural criteria for each of the different disorders in the manual.

But not everybody reads the entire DSM.

They kind of look, you know, F34.1 is bipolar disorder.

Bipolar 1. F33.10, that's major depressive disorder.

F84.0.

These are the diagnosed of codes. But in the back of the DSM, there's a really cool,

a couple cool sections. And one is there's cultural disorders. And there's also a section in the

current DSM-5 manual that is really a proposed alternative version for diagnosing

personality disorders, especially when a person does not meet the full diagnostic criteria

for one. So what am I going to pick? We're going to go with borderline because

this is the one that I get the most phone calls about. I get the most emails about and the one I

think that gets the most people, most interest from people and do most of referrals for

neuroscience on this. So this is probably the third or fourth episode where I have made notes

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