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

Thanks again for everybody who's been reaching out. It's been really helpful.

Hopefully last week's edition on the pandemic shed some light on the importance and prevalence

rates of mental health during this surreal and bizarre time.

The week prior, I introduced the topic of personality disorders.

And today we're going to focus on borderline personality disorder.

Probably one of the more frequent topics that patients have asked me to elaborate on

and a lot of you guys who've been following our program have asked to get a better understanding of

so from my perspective borderline is one of the most fascinating of the personality disorders and it falls

into the there's three clusters of personalities cluster a cluster B cluster C so in the cluster B group

is the borderline the antisocial narcissist, and the histrionic,

and other subsequent episodes will elaborate more on those. But borderline is constantly

depicted in movies. It's a term that is used many times out of context and people referring to someone

as you're so borderline, which really diminishes the significance and the severity of it.

And as I talked about in the personality episode, these early foundations and tenants of who an individual is

start at a very young age with personality being crystallized between five and eight years of

age, which, as I said before, is scary.

So if we take the framework of borderline pathology and how I kind of use the model of my view

of myself, my view of other people, my view of the world around me, and the therefore

as I draw, this would kind of be an example.

And again, as I've said, there's 120 different combinations.

So this is just the general stereotypical one.

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