I can you know even very vividly recall what I remembered you know during the treatment

right now but I don't get emotional you know it doesn't cause anxiety. It doesn't make me want to cry. It's a memory that I have and yes, it's a sad and traumatic memory. But it's like I've dealt with it.

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,

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I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but

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So please use your best judgment.

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this is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a

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So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. Okay, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 138. 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 an interview for you. Very excited about this one, so this is the second part in my

two-part series about ketamine treatments. Last week on episode 137 I

interviewed Dr Stephen Mandel from the ketamine clinics of Los Angeles and we had a

really really interesting conversation about ketamine who it's for who it's not for, dispelling myths and

misconceptions, all that good stuff, and I was really happy to be able to sort of get

into the clinical side of things regarding ketamine. This week's a little

different. We're still on the topic of

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