I had the pleasure of sitting down with the incredible (and YouTube famous) Dr. Fox to talk all things BPD. This is a conversation you won’t want to miss. Check out the full episode description for a detailed list of topics we cover. With nearly 150,000 subscribers on YouTube and two decades of experience under his belt, personality disorder expert Dr. Daniel Fox is a popular and influential psychologist as well as a multi-award-winning author (links to his books are listed in the resources portion of the notes.) Dr. Fox is also an internationally acclaimed speaker and the founder and director of Applied Psychological Services, PLLC, based in Texas. **To connect with me directly, join the community on Instagram and support the podcast to keep it ad-free, visit www.backfromtheborderline.com **   Some of the topics Dr. Fox and I cover on this episode:   ■ Core components of borderline personality disorder (also known as BPD or EUPD) ■ Managing “core content” and “destructive surface content” ■ Navigating relationships when someone you love has BPD (both from the perspective of the person with BPD and from the partner’s perspective) ■ Managing splitting behaviors ■ BPD and feelings of chronic emptiness (how to combat these feelings) ■ How to choose self-love rather than spiraling into thoughts of toxic shame ■ What does BPD recovery look like? ■ Why Dr. Fox says he loves working with people with BPD ■ Dr. Fox’s perspective on stigma against BPD (and other cluster B personality disorders) in the mental health field ■ How people with BPD can find their authentic selves ■ BPD and age regression (why people with BPD often feel as though they revert back to feeling “childlike” in moments of stress or splitting) ■ Splitting (black and white / all-or-nothing thinking) ■ Dr. Fox shares some of his client success stories (what recovery from BPD actually looks like)   The YouTube video version of this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI6u4Y_MGdY&t=12s Follow Dr. Fox on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrDanielFox   Dr. Fox’s brand new book that focuses on “complex BPD”: Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance   Dr. Fox’s Older Books: The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.