Episode 183: Life Coaches, My History, and Future Directions of Psychology with Mxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Hello! I am back from vacation and wishing I never left! In all seriousness, I had a great time. But now I'm back with another great episode for you.
This episode is a recording of a live stream that I did on Mxiety's Mixer stream. She interviewed me and we cover a lot of ground. Included in the topics we discuss are:
- The origin of my professional style
- Why I think a lot of mental health content is inherently unempathetic
- Resisting the lies anxiety tells you
- How I feel about life coaches
- The "end goal" of CBT treatment
- Interesting future directions in the field
Mxiety is part of an amazing group of streamers that talk openly about mental health. Please go and support her at the following links:
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| 0:17.0 | I kind of realize in that moment that a lot of the content that psychologists and therapists put out is really like we strive to be empathetic right meaning like being able to kind of put ourselves in somebody else's shoes but we don't show that through the content that we make because we don't consider what it's actually like to be in that frame of mind. Being super depressed and having no motivation to read something or being super anxious and having like your brain just fried trying to be a normal person right? |
| 0:25.4 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:29.1 | 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. |
| 0:36.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:43.0 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:45.0 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:49.0 | but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:52.0 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but, you know, feel |
| 0:54.3 | free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:56.3 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:01.6 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should |
| 1:04.1 | not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead |
| 1:08.2 | and get into the show. Oh, it's great. |
| 1:13.0 | It's great. |
| 1:15.0 | It's great. Great. |
| 1:17.0 | It's great. |
| 1:18.0 | It's great. |
| 1:20.0 | It's great. All right. |
| 1:25.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:29.5 | Podcast episode 183. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff |
| 1:32.9 | aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people |
| 1:36.3 | just like you and today is a little bit different so I have an |
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