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Hi everybody, Chris Gatherer here. Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous.

Very excited to talk to you as always. And genuinely so happy to be in this studio.

It's a very special sacred place to me and I appreciate everybody who listens to this show.

And allows me to hang out in this studio. I want to thank everybody who has shown enthusiasm.

I announced that I'm doing a new public access TV project called Chris Gatherer presents and so many of you guys sent messages online with a lot of support and love.

And it means the world. Speaking of online feedback, last week's episode, fascinating.

Fascinating feedback that I want to say I appreciate so much.

There were a number of people in the Facebook group who reacted to our episode which dealt heavily with a caller talking about her experience living with someone with borderline personality disorder.

And there were social workers, there was someone training in psychology who said, you know, this was one example.

And there are other people who don't display BPD in this way, don't live at this extreme.

There were also a number of people who said, I have borderline personality disorder and some people very fairly saying, I'm very worried that this podcast will spread some of the stereotypes of this condition that is still sort of like maybe one of the most demonized aspects of mental health, one of the most stigmatized.

And some people said, you know, I want to say that I am someone who has this and I am in treatment and I'm on top of it.

And it's not everybody's experience to go to this extreme or when you do, you're able to recover. And I just want to thank everybody.

It was a layered discussion and it was most importantly civil and productive and such a cool companion to the episode. Thanks so much for it.

This week's episode, I feel lucky that I got to have this conversation.

This is a dad and I think we'd all agree on any given day, this guy's life has some chaos in it. He's got multiple kids already. He's got another one on the way. His oldest is sick in the hospital.

It's a little heartbreaking to hear about. I was pretty happy to feel like maybe he got to blow off some steam by being on the show.

Maybe he got to forget about the stress for a while, even though he was explaining it. And yeah, it's pretty inspiring. It's pretty inspiring.

One of the things that you hear over and over again is his wife supports him. He supports his wife and they get through the hard times together.

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