Dr. Eric Bender

And that there aren't always breakthrough moments and it doesn't look like goodwill hunting all the time.

So I think that's important.

Not that that did a disservice, but it's not that you're gonna come in and feel like...

you're super connected.

It's going to take some time.

It's going to take some time to figure out what it is you're trying to work on too.

Yes, so typically I'll talk to them on the phone and say, are you looking for therapy?

Are you considering medication?

It says pretty clearly on my website, I do therapy-based practice.

But if they do that, I'll say, look, I don't do that, but I can offer you these people's names.

I might also say, if I'm talking to them on the phone for 15 minutes, I might also say, it sounds like while you're looking for medication, there might be a lot for you to talk about.

I wonder if it's worth you coming in just to see what it's like.

So that's another way to do it.

But I will refer them to just psychopharmacologists if that's what they're looking for.

I actually will say, I think that most recently the TV show, not a movie, but the TV show, The Bear, I really like the elements of psychology and psychiatry in that.

I think it shows so many things really well.

As I mentioned earlier, Jamie Lee Curtis, the character she plays, Donna Barzato.

has alcoholism, has borderline traits, has histrionic traits.

And the impact she has had on her children who are adults in the show is, is so true to life that they had to always look out for her, that there was no room for them, that they were shaped because of her actions.

That I think is, is incredible.