Bad Therapists & Rational Suicide
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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00:00 Why do I feel dread when the phone rings?
03:35 A dream about Dr. Kirk & Bob
08:12 OPP
09:43 How can I tell my therapist about therapeutic trauma?
22:08 OPP2
23:19 How can I move forward in a relationship with my parents?
32:13 Should the therapist dictate the length of treatment?
43:36 OPP3
44:31 What should I do when my therapist retires?
59:00 Rational suicide
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May 13, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob I have a bunch of emails, what do you say? |
| 0:02.0 | Lightning round. |
| 0:04.0 | Liting round. Middle-tier patron and YouTube member, |
| 0:08.0 | Eliza from Portland, she says, |
| 0:11.0 | I've noticed lately that when I receive mail from a company or a phone call from an unknown number I often have a physical dread reaction |
| 0:21.0 | You're nodding your head what what does that nod mean? Bob? I think this is pretty common. Yeah. Do you have that? |
| 0:27.4 | No, I don't get dread when the phone rings and I don't get dread when I get mail, but I have heard of this and I think it's |
| 0:33.8 | amplified since the pandemic why because we all isolate yeah and so I think we're |
| 0:39.8 | just scared of contact yeah yeah on, I think when this happens, when this happens, I think, |
| 0:47.0 | uh oh, am I in trouble? Which doesn't really make sense. I'm wondering if that knee jerk response points towards a particular schema. |
| 0:56.0 | When I notice it, it seems like a blinking neon sign pointing to a distortion in my worldview. |
| 1:01.8 | I'd love to hear what you think about this. So what do you think about? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, that sounds like a plausible explanation for getting scared when you get a phone call from a strange number. How much of your life is it affecting like like in an average day? Are you living in fear? Do you ever like have worry thoughts that you're gonna get a call or a piece of mail, right? |
| 1:24.3 | Like, so I'm just wondering how big an impact on your day it has. |
| 1:29.2 | And if you're writing us, I'm imagining it's somewhat sizey. |
| 1:32.1 | So I'm sorry about the suffering you're in. It's |
| 1:36.3 | treatable. You know it's just a phobic thing. Phobia is actually if you have to have |
| 1:40.9 | something man in the psych realm phobia is like the best |
| 1:44.1 | thing to have because the treatments are really fast and they work really well. |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah so what would they do? |
| 1:49.2 | Exposure therapy which is basically a graduated and mindful exposure to the thing and it's kind of like |
| 1:56.1 | telling a joke. If I tell you a joke, if it's a good joke, you'll laugh the first time and |
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