Chuck Bryant

Yeah, and isn't that stuff debate usually –

or I guess it should be, and I hope it's couched in how to best treat people and help people, right?

Rather than just like poo-pooing ideas?

Yeah, for sure.

You did mention earlier, as far as causes go, that sometimes there is a genetic link, but it seems that it's not really the disorder that is maybe passed from parent to child, but some of those traits, and maybe that's because it is sort of a cluster trait.

Sometimes you can have BPD and come from a pretty good, stable upbringing, but that seems to be the outlier, and it seems to be that most people that end up suffering from this had a pretty lousy childhood.

Yeah, this also made me think about, like, parenting of old versus parenting now.

And parents can – there are still, of course, a huge range of bad parents these days.

I'm not saying that everyone's doing it right now.

But it definitely seems like things turned a corner and parents are trying a lot harder these days.

And, like, sort of the old days of, like, oh, you know, kids raise themselves and you can ignore them and blah, blah, blah.

And, like –

I mean, I know that still happens, but it just seems like that happened a lot more back in the day.

And maybe in the future, things like this will be less and less.

I know that's sort of a basic, sort of an elementary way of looking at it, but I just feel like parents are more aware of stuff these days.

And, you know, people of our generation and certainly the generations before that, it was even worse as far as parental involvement and parents who either one or the other, you know, fathers a lot of times, you know, historically are the ones that are like, no, we're not going to parent because we're doing the work and we're going to bring home the paycheck.

And so, like I had, I've talked about it before, I had a dad that

wasn't very involved, but it wasn't like the kind of thing where I ended up with BPD because of it, you know?

If that makes sense.

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