good afternoon everyone it's dr niger again with our next episode of psychology unplugged it's

uh actually a beautiful day here in massachusetts for a change the snow was gone

um another fun week of interacting with so many people around the world um i've done my best

i think to respond to everybody i appreciate all the positive feedback and the comments and the suggestions.

And I'll give you my contact information at the end of this episode.

So as you know, Julie kind of pops in and out, depending, you know, if I'm saying something,

that you want to jump in.

So that's how we kind of do this program organically.

And we're going to revisit a topic that seems to be one of the most popular ones,

borderline personality disorder.

But I'm going to talk about it from the perspective of anger

and how it also touched on a lot of people want to know what it's like

growing up or having a parent that has a personality disorder.

I think you can even extrapolate that to a parent or a loved one with a mental health

condition, substance abuse.

So I'm going to try and intertwine several things in this podcast.

So anger in borderline pathology can be mild to extremely volvable.

And you have to remember that with borderline pathology, it's a fragmented sense of self.

And the entire lifestyle of an individual with borderline pathology is psychological survival.

And I think if you just go back to the basic fighter flight mode, that's how individuals with

borderline live. It's constant fight or flight mode. That's how individuals with borderline live. It's constant

fight or flight. And when needs get unmet, that anger can be destructive. It can be

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