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 108. I am your host Dr.

Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help

book series.

And first off, thank you, wherever you are, no matter what you're going through.

I just want to say really quickly that I really, really appreciate you sitting down or

walking or doing dishes or whatever it is

you're doing right now and joining me for a few minutes. I really appreciate your

attention and this is this has always been a very special project to me doing this podcast.

It's a way for me to try to help people on a different scale, to try to spread ideas, to try to spread awareness,

reduce stigma, answer questions in a straightforward way and sort of just

cut the BS about mental health.

So I really appreciate you facilitating that and helping me do that and supplying me with questions and supplying me with your attention.

I think of this as a collaboration and I think that we're doing a great job

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