Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode, Psychology Unplugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our new and long-term listeners and followers. I appreciate your continued support and encouragement of this program as we try to legitimize, demystify mental health, and instill a legitimate and true sense of self.

And as I was thinking of different topics, I thought I would kind of branch off into an interesting

theory. And I thought it was, you know, that I've talked about

attachment and stress and some other just psychological experiences and factors. I thought

I went into one that is kind of interesting, and I was able to pull notes from a

presentation that I had done on this in the past, so I'll be able to reference things,

but it's, you may have heard of this.

It's called Theory of Mind, and I think a lot of people believe they understand what theory of mind is.

But I think what they're really talking about is like a water down, like pop psychology,

TikTok version of it.

And, you know, theory of mind is nothing to do with being nice or considerate or reading people well.

They kind of like parav verbal communication.

In essence, the definition of really of theory of mind is the capacity to hold in our own awareness that someone

else has an inner inner world that does not belong to us that someone else has their own

identity their own feelings and experiences it is it's it's separate, it's sovereign, it's distinct, and it's really

nothing that's tangible and it's really invisible unless you infer about it. And what a lot of

textbooks don't understand is that theory of mind is not about knowing what someone thinks.

It's about accepting that you don't and holding that space anyway, which really means total uncertainty.

And that is not always a comfortable place for people in general to be in,

whether or not there is a diagnosable psychological condition. It's tolerating ambiguity

and tolerating not being the center of the narrative.

And also tolerating the idea that someone else's perspective or their reality actually contradicts our own and still be real.

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