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

As always, I thoroughly enjoyed doing this on a weekly basis. It's incredibly fun. It's really been fun interacting with a lot of you guys from different parts of the United States, different

parts of the world, in person over the phone, via email.

So this is really kind of a cool thing, and I really appreciate all of you guys who

are listening and tuning in.

All right, today's topic, we're going to revisit borderline personality disorder.

This seems to be the one that draws the most attention.

And I'm sure I'll probably repeat some stuff from the previous episode, but this is the one disorder and one topic that, you know, just looking at the analytics from, you know, the podcast that people want to know the most about.

And today we're going to, I want to kind of focus more on how do you treat it?

What do you do?

There's different modalities.

And as I've said before, my training was very extensive in cognitive

behavioral therapy. People will usually associate borderline personality disorder treatment

with dialectical behavioral therapy.

And here's the quick and dirty version of the difference between the two.

Dialectical behavioral therapy is about learning how to accept who you are.

Cognitive behavioral therapy is about changing the way you think and the way you act.

And a result of changing those two things, your emotions change.

So, borderline, as I've said, is typically medicated like bipolar disorder.

And for those of you guys who have been following our podcast, you will not be surprised at what I'm going to say is if you

think that yourself or someone you know has this diagnosis, formal neuropsychological testing

is the only way not only to get the diagnosis, but to delineate the symptomatology,

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