398: Choosing to be Childless, Sex Mismatch, & Inpatient Treatment

The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Hello, friends!

In today’s episode, we tackle three insightful listener questions that many of you might relate to:

Choosing Not to Have Biological Children Due to Mental Illness: A listener shares their decision to not have biological children to avoid passing on their mental health struggles. They feel confident in this choice but encounter surprise and judgment from others. We discuss the validity of their decision, the heritability of mental health conditions, and the importance of respecting personal choices.

Navigating Barriers to Inpatient Mental Health Treatment: Another listener is considering inpatient treatment but faces significant logistical and financial barriers. We explore the challenges of dealing with insurance, paperwork, and managing life responsibilities during treatment. Suggestions for alternative treatment options like intensive outpatient programs (IOP) and partial-hospitalization programs (PHP) are also discussed.

Addressing Mismatched Sex Drives in a Relationship: A listener in a relationship with differing sex drives seeks advice on how to encourage their partner to address potential low testosterone or other medical issues affecting their libido. We delve into the complexities of communication about sexual needs, potential underlying relationship issues, and strategies for fostering open dialogue and seeking professional help.

As always, you can send me questions to [email protected] and find the full show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode398.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This episode is going to be a very packed episode.
0:04.0	There are kind of two and a half questions. The first one I'm answering in two parts.
0:08.4	The second one is a standalone question. A lot of very interesting stuff.
0:12.0	The first one is from somebody who's been dealing with mental health issues very significantly throughout their whole life.
0:17.0	And they wanted to know is their decision to not have biological kids strange.
0:21.0	They also wanted some help navigating the prospect of going into
0:24.4	inpatient treatment. So we talked about some of the ins and outs of that. The
0:28.2	second question is from somebody who is a trans man on testosterone, meaning they are getting excess testosterone as part of their
0:36.5	gender affirming care, and that's making them very sexual.
0:40.9	And their partner is having the opposite experience where their partner's testosterone potentially is going down and they're becoming less sexual.
0:47.0	So they want to know how to deal with that, what they can do in terms of communication or other strategies to improve that.
0:53.6	So I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:55.4	I had fun making it, and a self-help
1:14.4	author from Southern California. My goal is to make mental health content for real
1:18.6	people just like you. And in this show I answered your questions or dive deep into topics related to life, psychology, mental health relationships, and more.
1:27.0	Please be aware that sometimes I use some spicy language, and I also don't shy away from sensitive topics but I will try to give you a
1:34.7	content warning whenever it's relevant.
1:37.0	So if all this sounds good to you, let's get started.
1:39.2	All right, hello friends of all varieties.
1:44.0	Thank you so much for joining me.
1:45.0	This is episode 398.
1:47.0	I appreciate you being here.
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