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. Hello friends of all varieties this is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast episode 128.

I am your host Dr Robert Duff aka Duff the psych.

I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a few questions

that I'm going to answer for you. If you have a question you want to send into the show

send it to doth the psych at gmail.com or you can just go to doth the psych

and go to the contact page there.

So yeah, we're going to do a regular question and answer episode here today, but before I get

into the questions, I just wanted to talk with you guys about something.

The topic of like suicide hospitalization, suicidal

thoughts, suicidal ideation, things like that. It comes up periodically on the podcast here and I believe it's something

that's really important to talk about. And I'm not going to talk about a lot of specifics here

because I don't want to betray any confidentiality or anything like that.

But this past week, I had a situation with a therapy client of mine

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