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. All right. All right.

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All right. Hello friends of all varieties. This is Friends of All Varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 104.

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

Hardcore Self-Help Book series.

If you're new to the podcast, this is a podcast where I answer your questions about mental health, life, relationships, anything like that.

Try to do so in a very straightforward manner. If I use Psychobabble I make sure it's

to define it and you know just kind of treat you like a real person. So that's the

normal format I also do a lot of interviews on this podcast and that's what I'm

doing today so today I have an

interview that I recorded with Dr. Andrea Letimendi. She is an awesome

psychologist, a clinical psychologist who is very much after you know my my own

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