Episode 123: Porn and Depression, Panic Disorder, Fleeting Suicidal Thoughts
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hello! Fantastic questions on today's Q&A episode. I am always amazed by your honesty and vulnerability when sending these in. Here's what we cover today:
- Could porn be causing my depression and lack of pleasure in life?
- How can I deal with my constant panic attacks?
- Should I talk to my therapist about new fleeting thoughts of suicide?
As always, you can send me your questions for an upcoming episode to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:04.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:08.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:17.0 | 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 |
| 0:24.5 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:27.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:32.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:35.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:40.0 | 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 one 23. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California, the author of the Hardcore Self-Help book series. |
| 1:12.0 | And I have no idea what the acoustics are like in |
| 1:15.3 | this recording. I just moved. I think I mentioned that in the podcast |
| 1:19.2 | previously but this past Friday I moved and right now I'm sitting in my new office which is nice. |
| 1:26.0 | It's a nice little room got two windows in the corner that I'm looking at. |
| 1:30.0 | A couple changes from where I was before. My old place, my office was downstairs and the living rooms, well, living rooms like the bedrooms were up on the third floor. It was like a little skinny tall condo. Now we're in a one-story house so my |
| 1:45.2 | office is right next to the boy's room and that means that I can't be quite as loud |
| 1:52.2 | possibly. I don't know I'm still feeling it out and |
| 1:54.3 | currently the office is completely bare with a bunch of fricking boxes in here |
| 1:59.3 | because I haven't had a chance to fully unpack yet so So it may be a little bit more echoy, |
| 2:04.2 | and I'm not gonna be too too loud |
| 2:06.0 | because I don't wanna wake up the kid. |
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