Hey deserving listeners, it's just me today.

I thought I would respond to a patron email regarding borderline personality.

But before I do that, let me introduce the podcast.

This is the podcast called Psychology in Seattle and I am your host Dr Kirk Honda. I am a professor and a therapist.

The email is from a patron and just a little reminder if you want your emails to be read

You have to become a patron not all the time, but your patron emails get preferred and since I get a lot of

emails from patrons it's hard for me to get to other emails so not to say that I

I always read all the emails but I don't always respond on the air unless you're a patron.

Okay, so this is an email from a patron.

Thank you for your podcast on borderline personality disorder, which I found really helpful.

One of my clients has borderline personality disorder,

and I have been having a difficult time with her.

She previously had two different helpers before. having a difficult time with her.

She previously had two different helpers

before being allocated to me

because the other helpers didn't want to work with her anymore.

I'm using the word, I'm just chiming in here, I'm using the word helper because I didn't

want to put the exact type of helper because then it might reveal who the patron is and maybe who the client is.

So, so anyway the emailer is, the patron is saying,

she worked with two different people before and they didn't like working with this borderline client so she got sent to me.

So going on with the email.

I think this is a shame and I wonder if it is because they didn't fully understand her condition.

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