Dr. Eric Bender

I understand how someone who's completely different from me goes through experiences.

And I really liked how that was done in the show, sorry, in the movie.

And I really like that from seeing patients, I can write books and do this kind of work.

I don't know that there's a personality type.

I think if you can be empathetic, if you can be, if you're able to understand yourself and tolerate yourself and your own emotions and

know what those are so that you can be in a position to help somebody else with that.

A high EQ, I think, a high emotional quotient.

Yes, I would say that would be best.

But if you don't have that, there are other ways you could practice psychiatry.

But I do think if you're gonna do therapy, you really need to be able to sit with somebody.

And that can be really painful, really painful.

If you're sitting with somebody who's just lost a child, if you're sitting with somebody who's, I don't know, dealing with all kinds of pain,

just to be able to sit with that, it can be really hard.

And then to realize, and I'm still learning this, my therapist is often telling me this, sometimes just being with someone isn't enough.

Just sitting there, I'm always thinking, what do I do?

What do I say?

Sometimes you don't have to, it's just a matter of just being quiet, sitting.

Not at all.

Even though I said a high EQ would be great, I would say, well, tell me about that.

Let's figure that out.