Episode 178: Bad Enough for Therapy, Anxiety Nausea, Depression in Relationship
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! Happy to bring you another great question and answer episode today. Before that a quick announcement.
October is my birth month and this year marks 5 years since starting the Duff the Psych brand. I'm so excited to continue this journey with you all and feeling immensely grateful. So all this month, I will be doing giveaways, freebies, discounts, and special events. Follow along on my Facebook page to get notified about all the good stuff coming up!
The first exciting announcement for this month is that I will be temporarily providing a $200 discount on my Kick Anxiety's Ass online course until October 15th. That means that you can get the entire 10-module course for just $100, which is honestly an insane value. Use the coupon code "five" or follow this link to check it out!
Anyway, here are the questions I answer in this episode:
- I feel like my issues are not bad enough for therapy and I should just suck it up. What can I do to start getting over it?
- How can I help my severe anxiety and nausea that starts in the early morning?
- My friend's boyfriend has depression and has become distant. What should she do?
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As always, you can send me your questions and topic suggestions to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You can stand basically about anything for five minutes. |
| 0:02.7 | And what you do is you make a deal with yourself |
| 0:05.0 | and you say, okay, I don't want to do this thing, |
| 0:07.3 | but I'm going to give it a shot for five minutes. |
| 0:09.4 | If I really, really hate it after five minutes, |
| 0:11.3 | I can quit. |
| 0:11.9 | I can stop, no problem. but I have to at least try for |
| 0:14.6 | five minutes. And often what you find is once you get five minutes done, you're like, well, that went by quick. |
| 0:19.0 | I could certainly keep going. So maybe another five minutes and you keep going and you keep going. And then the ball is rolling and you get the thing done. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:29.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be |
| 0:34.0 | sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, |
| 0:39.5 | 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 need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 0:53.7 | free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not |
| 0:58.0 | your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is not intended to be direct |
| 1:02.2 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:06.0 | So with those said, let's great. All right. Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:29.8 | Podcast episode 178. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
| 1:35.4 | content for real people just like you and today we have a question and answer |
| 1:39.3 | episode. If you ever want to send me a question you just just send an email over to duff the psych at gmail.com, |
| 1:45.0 | or you can go to my contact page at duff the psych.com and use that. |
| 1:49.0 | But yeah, I take questions about all sorts of different stuff, and today is no exception. |
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