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check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay

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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 Health Health Podcast episode 115.

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

Self Health Book series. And today's episode is a little bit different.

This is kind of like a deep dive episode, but it's a little more ad hoc than that.

I hadn't planned on doing this episode. I actually had planned on

doing a conversation in which my wife would join me to talk about ways to support your

partner with mental illness, ways to not do so, things about that.

And we probably will definitely, probably definitely.

We're planning on still recording that at some point, probably next week, but today was a rough day for news in America.

And of course, I need to you know address my bias I am a you know definitely left-wing

liberal acceptant people loving, you know, progressive type person.

And, you know, of course in this current administration in the U.S.

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