Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.

This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.

So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it

out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay

but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a

psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.

So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All Right. Hello, friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 103.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help

Book series. And, um, yep yeah I had a cold again that's that's what happens

when you have two little kids and you know work with a lot of people I feel like I'm

constantly sick and it's annoying but yeah so you get a stuffier version of me today I apologize

I was hoping that it would clear up by the time I needed to record but it didn't so I'm kind of just

very stuffy and so if I take little breaks to you know handle

that you'll maybe notice the audio cut out here and there and of course my voice is a little

more ragged than usual because it's been coughing and sneezing and all of that.

And so, you know, you're going to have to deal with that.

Sorry, nothing I can do about it.

But yeah, hey, today's going to be a question and answer episode.

If you're new to the show, I am a clinical psychologist and I take your questions about

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