Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

One of the big topics that we emphasize on the podcast is how we can understand, relate

to you, and deal with the various emotional and psychological tendencies and challenges

that we might face.

And sometimes those tendencies group together clearly enough that doctors can put a name

on them.

Some of them are well known, being things like ADHD, OCD, borderline, narcissism, and so

on.

And we've talked about many of these diagnoses in the past, but we've never focused

a full episode on diagnosis itself.

Receiving the diagnosis can be really emotionally complicated.

And it can leave you with a lot of understandable questions, things like what does this mean,

what do I do now, how do I relate to this, and maybe even is my life as I know it over.

So today we're going to be focusing on what a diagnosis is, what it means, how the

diagnostic process works, and how we can better think about and relate to receiving a diagnosis.

And to help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, because clinical psychologist,

a best-selling author, and he's also my dad.

And it's also been a while since I've talked with him because he's spent the last month

or so living out of a camper van going on rock climbing expeditions.

So dad, how are you doing today?

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