00:00I had people coming in who were describing their loved one, could be a spouse, could be a parent, could be a boss, you know, and I was sitting there thinking, the wrong person is in the office with me.
00:16These people have been willing to come in, get a diagnosis for insurance, call themselves mentally disordered in order to get help dealing with these incredibly difficult people.
00:32And so it presented this kind of crazy picture of all the people who needed to be in therapy were running around.
00:41Causing other people to be in therapy.
00:43Causing other people to be in therapy. And I got very interested in the nature of the behavior of these problematic people.
00:52And I began to reflect to people, you know, this person sounds like a four-year-old or your dad's behavior really seems like a tantrum.
01:00Have you ever thought about it that way? And they would say, oh, yeah, we joke about, you know, dad's tantrums all the time.
01:05He really is like a three-year-old when he gets going.
01:08So people knew it, but they had not conceptualized it as a problem with emotional maturity.
01:15That's fine.
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