Episode 149: First Panic Attack, Confronting Family Abuser, Repairing vs Calling Off an Engagement
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode is a question and answer session. I cover three awesome questions that cover a variety of important topics. As always I'm impressed by the bravery in posing these difficult questions and I hope that I do a good job of being sensitive AND realistic in my responses. Here are the questions:
- How can I manage my anxiety after I had my first panic attack?
- How can I deal with my abuser, who is also my father, when he wants to stay at my home?
- Should I continue pushing or call of my problematic engagement?
As always, I would greatly appreciate a share or review of the podcast and if you have questions or topics that you'd like me to cover on the show, please send them to duffthepsych@gmail.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The point is you know you could use that knowledge to call anxiety's bullshit to say no that's not the truth |
| 0:06.0 | Because what anxiety wants you to do is it wants you to give up and wants you to avoid things and your job is to say okay |
| 0:15.9 | I'm feeling like things are dangerous or risky or something bad's gonna happen but that does not necessarily mean that's the fact it |
| 0:19.8 | doesn't necessarily mean that that's true why do I feel this way? And once you identify that, what can I do about |
| 0:26.1 | working through it or working around it? Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple |
| 0:31.4 | disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in |
| 0:36.3 | general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you |
| 0:40.9 | to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:46.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:52.0 | but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:55.2 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:59.2 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:04.6 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute |
| 1:08.3 | for professional help. |
| 1:10.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. |
| 1:31.2 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 149. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
| 1:38.4 | content for real people just like you and today we have a nice Q&A episode cute up for you. I have three Thank you |
| 1:45.0 | and have a nice Q&A episode queued up for you. |
| 1:47.0 | As a reminder, if you want to send in a question, |
| 1:49.0 | you simply send it to Duff the Psych at gmail.com |
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