About this episode
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. John Garrison.
A clinical psychologist and body language expert who runs the YouTube channel Dr. G explains.
In our interview we discuss,
How do you know when someone’s behavior is Ocd?
What it means to be caught in the honeymoon period.
Understanding body language at its core.
How to identify if someone is lying
The body language of someone in love with you.
How you decipher the body language of aggressive people
How can you tell if someone is being serious
Understanding narcissistic traits and narcissistic personality disorder.
Interview Transcript
Chris Seiter 00:11
so today we’re gonna be talking to Dr. Garrison, who has an MBA and Doctorate in clinical psychology is considered a body language expert and specializes in took specialized training and counterterrorism. His work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Business Insider, Forbes, vice, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, real, some real simple and fatherly. I mean, I was just sort of like stumbling over myself with how how often you’ve been featured places. Thank you so much for coming.
Dr. G 00:40
I’m super happy to be here.
Chris Seiter 00:42
So we were talking a little bit before we actually started recording a little bit about how you have a background in diagnosing clinical disorders. Like, I guess, specifically, what I think is interesting to me here is the narcissistic personality disorder. And little bit of the, let’s just talk about the narcissistic personality disorder first, because I have noticed a lot of people in our community will say, Oh, my ex is narcissistic, but I’m not actually convinced to that. I think they just have some narcissistic traits not sure. Can you maybe speak to that a little
Dr. G 01:16
bit? Sure. So to make sense of that, I’m going to try to explain what personality disorders are because personality disorders are a little bit different than mental illness. And the way we differentiate that is something like depression, anxiety. The more common disorders that we hear about those are considered mental illness. A personality disorder is a dysfunction of the personality, they’re missing parts of their personality, that allow them to be a whole person to learn from interpersonal interaction, to get better to have a full satisfying life. So people that are missing these pa
