Blaise Aguirre

Ooh.

He's an armchair expert.

Yeah, so mood disorder, you know, as we sort of think a little bit about it, is that you have discrete episodes of...

mood states, typically either depressed or manic, that last for a certain period of time, 10 days, two weeks, and respond typically to treatment such as medication and cognitive behavioral therapy.

And that there's really, when you're in that state, there's very little reactivity to that state.

So when somebody is depressed,

They stay in that state for this period of time.

Some given period of time.

With personality disorders, there are traits about who you are, you know, that the way that you experience yourself in relationship to other people.

And that those traits, so maybe it's, maybe you're emotionally very intense.

Maybe you tend to be reactive to what people say and do.

That those personality traits, when activated, interfere with your ability to function.

So what's confusing is that say somebody has, you know, borderline personality disorder and everything's going fine.

To the outside observer, they're just like doing fine.

But then somebody says, so they're on Instagram and

They didn't get invited to a party, and they see all their friends at a party, and now there's incredible rage, incredible anger, incredible jealousy, envy, and it spikes their emotional state.

And in that state, they cannot function.

Their relationships begin to be impacted.

Maybe their work does.

Exactly.