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In a recent Fact Check Monica mentioned a cooking Chanel she’s been watching late at night during her binge watching rabbit holes. She mentioned Alison Roman hasn’t posted any new vids so she’s watching this channel lately. She posts 30 minute videos of her cooking live. I think it was “Cooking with (insert woman’s name)”.

Does anyone know what that channel is called??

I attend orange theory in Atlanta and if someone wears a heart rate monitor during class their name is on the screen. Wouldn’t you know it a class member of mine was named Dax Shepard 🤣

EDIT: I’m stepping away from this thread, but I posted a reply to all the comments under the original post. Thanks for all the kind messages!

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share something that really hurt me as someone with borderline personality disorder.
I’m a longtime listener of Armchair Expert, and during the Crazy Neighbors 2 segment, BPD seemed to be brought up casually as an explanation for extreme, frightening, or unstable behavior in a story that sounded more like postpartum psychosis or a serious postpartum mental health crisis.

That really upset me. Borderline personality disorder and psychosis are not the same thing, and using “borderline” in that context reinforces the harmful idea that people with BPD are dangerous, delusional, irrational, or “crazy.”

I spent ten years in therapy because of childhood abuse, years in child custody and youth homes, and the borderline diagnosis I received as a result. For many of us, BPD comes from trauma and harmful experiences that were inflicted on us by others. It is not a character flaw, and it is not a choice. It is also treatable, and many people with BPD work incredibly hard to recover, heal, and build stable lives.

Today, I am a film director, I own my own home, I have a family, and I live a stable, full, normal life — and I still have borderline personality disorder.

People with BPD are not punchlines or shorthand for “crazy” behavior. Many of us are survivors of trauma who have worked incredibly hard to heal and build meaningful lives.

I wanted to share this here because I know stigma around BPD affects many of us deeply, and I’m curious how others feel when public figures talk about BPD this way.

We deserve to be spoken about with accuracy, empathy, and respect.

EDIT: My comment keeps getting filtered so I’m posting it here

I’m stepping away from this thread now, but I wanted to clarify what I was trying to say. I appreciate the people who understood my point, and I understand that some people have had painful experiences where BPD was involved. I’m sorry to hear that. But honestly, some of the comments here have further underlined the problem I was trying to describe.

I have never hurt anyone in the way people here are describing. The person my BPD has hurt the most is me. I have adopted and trained shelter dogs, worked with terminally ill adults and children since I was a teenager, and put my life on hold to care for family members with cancer. I’m not saying this to sound perfect — I’m saying it because people with BPD are full, complex human beings, not just a stereotype.
BPD can also come with deep empathy, often for everyone but ourselves.

For many of us, the pain is deeply internal: shame, loneliness, and intense self-criticism. Many people with borderline traits are overlooked, and some do not even tell their own spouses or friends about their internal struggles because of stigma created by comments like Monicas or comments in this thread. This kind of stigma can also make people afraid to accept the diagnosis or treatment, even though BPD is treatable.

It hurts to see the most extreme examples treated as representative of the whole diagnosis.

I never claimed that people with BPD can’t hurt others, or that anyone’s experiences are invalid. My point was that BPD should not be used as shorthand for being irrational, unstable, harmful, or incapable of growth.

More than 80 million people worldwide are estimated to have BPD. Generalizing and stigmatizing millions of people based on rumors, stereotypes, or personal experiences is not right. And public figures like Dax and Monica - with millions of listeners - should not further add to the stigma!

Spotify user. I usually skip ads of all the podcasts that I listen to except for Good Hangs, Amy's is so short that it's almost over by time I get to that fast forward button.

I previously caught the beginning of a peyronie's disease ad on Freakenomics. Chuckled, thought of Dax and DTF St. Louis.

But then OMG, I heard Dax starting to read the ad for peyronie's disease and I was so excited. I was hoping that he was going to add some color after the read, and I was so bummed that it was just whatever their publicist had sent him. Missed opportunity by the PD team. He could have added something hilarious but also endearing and vulnerable to help their cause.

Seems like it was made for Armcherries! £13 in the sale if you're signed in
https://www.oliverbonas.com/homeware/welcome-cherries-round-doormat-403690

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Is there an easy way to look through older episodes from experts now that everything is combined into the same stream?

I was looking to revisit some of the older topics but it's a lot to scroll through since everything is combined. And even on the website I couldn't separate Experts on Expert episodes. It's also annoying that on the website only the names are listed and not the topic of discussion.

Does anyone have an easier solution?

Remember that? I don’t miss the fights, but sometimes I wish they would debate things a little more like they used to but without actual fights I always got uncomfy. Anyone else?

Also I miss Rob. He used to contribute so much more.

Still love the show, but those are my thoughts.

I don’t follow him much on social media because I don’t have it other than Reddit, but he’s been on several podcasts I like and I listened to another episode today on a podcast I love. I do think him and Dax would clash on some topics but think it would be interesting to get a two hour or so interview with him and hear their discussion. So I’m throwing this into the world for Dr Mike to be on.

Edit: oops, he’s been on and I just didn’t remember. But it was 2024 and I’d be into a round two.

So I sought out this episode out as I just KNEW there would be a Borderline Personality Disorder expert on at some point as I am currently dealing with a loved one being in “activated mode.” I am so grateful as it helped me craft language that I hope is both strong and compassionate for them while still protecting myself.

Anyway, if you missed this one, it’s a great episode if you have any experience with or dealing with BPD.