Good evening, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again with our next episode of Psychology Unplugged.

Another really fun and fascinating week of talking to so many people all over the world,

whether it is through conversation, email, text. I really appreciate all the comments and the

feedback and very humbled of how many of you guys are

coming out to Massachusetts, either for your neuropsychial for yourself or coming with a loved one.

I look forward to meeting you guys and I'll give you the contact information of how to get

in touch with me at the end of this episode.

So, you know, looking at the analytics, which is, again, technology is not my strong suit, but, and from the myriad calls that I've, calls, texts, emails that I've got this week, and revisit revisit borderline personality again because this seems to be one of the most popular ones.

I'm going to approach it from the perspective that I did when I did an episode back in November of 2021,

the relational aspect of being in relationship with somebody with borderline personality, whether that is you are a child, you are a spouse, a partner, a parent, a colleague, a coworker.

And the question, I think, if I kind of extrapolate and break down what the the common question I think I got

over the last two, three weeks was, are people with borderline personality bad people?

And if you take a step back and just look at it from a broader perspective, the question

would be, are people born bad?

And my professional and clinical perspective is no.

I believe that people are byproducts of their environment.

They are byproducts of learning.

They are byproducts of what behaviors have been reinforced with thoughts,

what emotions have been reinforced. So are people born bad? Again, no. Do people do bad things,

which is a subjective term? Yes. And in borderline personality, people can leave a

path of destruction, and sometimes that path of destruction is irreversible. The road is

permanently burned. Juliet asked me last year to do an episode or talk,

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