You know, family is important, but they're also circumstantial.

Your blood relatives are your family by coincidence, right?

You didn't choose them, that's just what the circumstances of nature dictated,

but if needed, never forget that you get to choose who

your real family is.

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 good. All right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast, Episode 135.

I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.

I'm here to make mental health content for real people,

just like you.

And today I am doing something that I have not done before which is reposting a previous

episode so it is currently the week of Thanksgiving here in the US and I will be celebrating with my family and

there's lots of stuff to do this week and I'm taking some time off to you

just be with the family, be with the boys and get some you know home type stuff done so I don't want to

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