399: Dating with a Stutter & Self-Harm Scars
The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends!
In today’s episode, we tackle two profound listener questions that may resonate with many of you:
Navigating Dating with a Stutter: A 38-year-old listener shares their struggles with stuttering, particularly how it impacts their dating life. They often need months to work up the courage to ask someone out and lose confidence if they stutter while doing so. We explore the nature of stuttering, its psychological impacts, and offer practical advice on managing anxiety, building self-confidence, and embracing one's uniqueness in social contexts.
Overcoming Self-Harm Scars and Building Confidence: Another listener, who self-harmed from ages 12 to 15, describes the ongoing shame they feel about their visible scars, which has affected their dating life and social activities. They seek advice on how to overcome this fear and become more open about their past. We discuss strategies for self-acceptance, the importance of vulnerability, and ways to reframe scars as symbols of resilience and survival.
As always, you can send me questions to [email protected] and find the full show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode399
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, thank you for joining me today. I have two very good questions. They're somewhat similar in that they're both questions about |
| 0:08.0 | insecurities and how to work through them. The first one is from somebody who has a stutter as an adult and they're asking for some advice about getting over the insecurity about that especially with dating. |
| 0:18.0 | The second question is, I'm going to give a little bit of a content warning for this one. |
| 0:22.0 | It's from somebody who has scars from self-harming, and a very similar question, just asking |
| 0:26.8 | about how to go about dealing with the insecurity of that, especially with dating. |
| 0:31.1 | So awesome stuff in this episode. I hope that you enjoy it and yeah let's go. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm a Clinical Psychologist and a self-help author from Southern California. |
| 0:54.3 | My goal is to make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 0:58.1 | And in this show I answer your questions or dive deep into topics related to life, psychology, mental health, relationships, and more. |
| 1:05.4 | Please be aware that sometimes I use some spicy language, and I also don't shy away from sensitive topics, |
| 1:11.4 | but I will try to give you a content warning whenever it's relevant. |
| 1:14.7 | So if all this sounds good to you, let's get started. |
| 1:17.0 | All right, hello friends of all varieties, thank you so much for joining me today. This is episode |
| 1:24.1 | 399. I hope that you are doing well. He has a reminder if you want to send me a |
| 1:29.8 | question for the show head over to death the psych.com and use the contact form there or you can send me an email to |
| 1:35.4 | deft the psych at g email dot com. I've gotten some good questions lately but I am |
| 1:39.1 | always looking for more so if you haven't sent in a question yet |
| 1:42.1 | now's your time I would greatly |
| 1:43.5 | appreciate it I want to let you know I do have some interviews queued up and none |
| 1:47.8 | yet I was gonna have one for this week but as something happened and had to get |
| 1:51.3 | rescheduled as is the case but I have something happened and had to get rescheduled as is the case. |
| 1:53.0 | But I have what three I think three or four lined up as long as everything goes |
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