You know it's like I've had to change my entire life to manage my illness and a lot of other people really don't understand that they're like why can't you just keep a full-time job and I think if I didn't have to fit into that structure,

if I could just like go play in a tree house

and just like live in the forest,

I'd probably be a lot less mentally ill

because I think, yeah yeah it's just it I don't know society

doesn't allow me to move within those moods which I think makes it more extreme.

Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.

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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.

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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. 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 145.

I'm 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.

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