Episode 174: Driving Anxiety, Overly Affectionate Mom, Helper Burnout
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This is a really great question and answer episode. If you hear some crickets chirping in the background, that is because it's hot as balls outside, even at 11pm and there was no way I was about to record with the window closed. Here are the questions that I cover:
- How can I address my anxiety about driving on the highway?
- What do I do about my husband's overly affectionate mother?
- How can I prevent burnout as a mental health professional?
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and full show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode174
This episode is brought to you by Better Help and Warby Parker
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| 0:00.0 | I think you need to be honest with him about the fact that this makes you uncomfortable. |
| 0:04.0 | You know, it isn't necessarily a moral judgment or something that you think is disgusting. |
| 0:09.0 | You can or you cannot, but that's not necessarily what all this is about. |
| 0:13.0 | That's secondary. |
| 0:14.4 | It's just something that you're simply uncomfortable with. |
| 0:17.0 | And that is important for you guys to talk about and to establish |
| 0:20.0 | that this is something that makes you feel weird. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, |
| 0:24.7 | I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:26.8 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics |
| 0:28.9 | related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:31.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously |
| 0:34.4 | encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and |
| 0:38.7 | 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, |
| 0:46.0 | 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 |
| 0:54.8 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be |
| 0:59.6 | direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:04.2 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 174. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:32.0 | I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:34.8 | And today we have a question and answer session. If you guys are interested in sending in a question, |
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