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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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This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.

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Hello, friends of all varieties, This is the Hardcore Self-Help

podcast episode 130. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the psych. I make

mental health content for real people just like you. And today today try something slightly different I'm going to be doing

an experiment here so what I want to do is change the format of the show a little bit. The podcast has been growing quite a bit and with that I'm looking for ways to sort of optimize and make things even better.

Part of that is optimizing my time, part of that is optimizing how well the podcast will be found by other people,

all sorts of stuff that I'm thinking about. So I'm trying a little experiment here and what I'd

like to do is try doing one question per episode instead of three and then changing my

approach a little bit to really give that one question a lot of time and

attention and kind of do a bit of a deep dive into that question as a prompt, you know, not just answering the question but also using it as a jumping off point to discuss related topics, defined terms, all sorts of stuff like that.

So what I want to do is I want to try this for a few weeks. defined terms, all sorts of stuff like that.

So what I want to do is I want to try this for a few weeks,

and then I'll come back and ask you for your opinions about it,

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