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,

and some of those could be sensitive for you.

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

psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

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. Hello friends of all varieties this is the Hardcore Health

Health Podcast episode 182 I'm your host Dr Robert Duff

aka Duff the psych a make mental health content for real people just like you and today if you're listening to this on the day of release it is currently Halloween

I'm not sure where Halloween is all celebrated even if you want to call it celebrated You know in the US we dress up in costumes

go around and get candy. It's a super weird holiday probably stolen from a million

different people and other traditions but it's a good chance to get spooky. So what I'm doing today is this is actually a re-release of an episode I've done previously a couple years ago.

This is an episode all about sort of spooky, creepy social psychology experiments.

So talking about sort of the darker side of the human condition,

and it's recorded in such a way that's a little bit silly.

I definitely was super dramatic with it, pulling heavily from the LORE Podcast for inspiration, but it's an

episode that I love and I have fun listening back to myself, so hopefully you like it too.

So without further ado, go ahead enjoy this the spooky episode of the Hardcore Self Help

Podcast. Thank you. Humans are interesting creatures. Evolution has provided our brains with

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