Good evening, everybody. How y'all doing? Welcome to the show. I got a great show plan for you, as always.

We're going to have a little fun, hopefully some laughs, maybe tell a few stories and anecdotes, but also going to learn a little bit.

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Any topics you want covered, we'd love to hear about it. Maybe you want to circle back, drop deeper into something.

I'm going to talk about ready for this one.

It's so interesting how every couple years there's a diagnosis or a pop psychology

label or concept that just becomes like the new thing.

In the field of psychopharmacology,

diagnoses become what everyone has. And for a while there, everyone had ADHD and then it moved

into everyone has bipolar. It's really quite fascinating. We're not going to get into that as

much as the pop culture terms that get slung around. We're still in a time when everyone's,

everyone's a narcissist.

And there's all these pages of how to deal with narcissistic abuse.

And, you know, that's not to minimize the impact of being with someone who really struggles

with that.

But remember, we don't make a lot of the choices we make.

We are often doing the best we can with how we've been built.

Our early environment and

every relationship and experience after that builds us. And yes, we have to expect people to treat

us kindly and lovingly, but we also want to hold empathy to understand how someone came to be the way

they are. Now, if you've been the victim of someone's bad behavior, I understand that. That's a very

difficult thing to do. And maybe that's not something that's ever a part of your journey. Being trauma-informed means

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