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

Unplugged, as always thank you to all the followers that we have, both nationally and internationally.

It is a privilege to be able to do this every week and to be companions and guides and sources of knowledge and assistance in your understanding and journey with mental health,

whether it's your own or someone in your immediate family or friends or colleagues.

And I look forward to doing this every week and appreciate

everybody who reaches out and thank you for that please continue to reach out if I have

not gotten back to you I will it's you know give you a number out to's a blessing and, uh, sometimes it's tough to catch up with everybody, but I, I do my best and I, I appreciate everybody, uh, who follows this program.

So returning back to the one topic that, uh, everybody seems to enjoy the most.

And one that I personally and professionally find interesting

and fascinating returning back to borderline personality disorder and I've done probably the most

episodes on this specific one I think it's out of my training my my area of interest, which I really, you know, besides

neuropsychology and diagnostics, I was always fascinated by the personality disorders.

Not that other disorders aren't interesting as well, but personality, because you're really

dealing with the totality of a person, and you're seeing how this symptomatology really permeates all areas and aspects of an individual's life.

I said this in the beginning of, you know, doing this podcast, I think we need to move away.

I think we should look at them as personality styles versus disorders in terms of reducing the stigma.

And borderline is one that has a tremendous stigma, especially how it is portrayed in the media and in television and in movies and in books as almost this horrible and curable disease.

And I'm here to tell you that, yes, borderline is treatable. It is curable.

But the caveat for change is really the requisite, the necessary ingredient for change

in all aspects of psychological treatment is being uncomfortable, getting to a place

where I'm saying, I'm tired of thinking, feeling, and acting this way.

Many times people just operate on the premise of like repetition compulsion,

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