I often feel like I always have to be doing something and anytime I take a break or need a break anytime I do something leisurely I feel weird and guilty about it.

So it's something that I can definitely identify with, but it's important, right?

You know, one of the things that I encourage you to do to work against this is just remember

that you do need breaks.

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. This is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast episode 148.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.

I make mental health content for real people just like you. And today I have a question and answer

session. It's been a while since I've done a Q&A, so really excited to be back to doing it. It feels good.

I've had a few episodes where it's been you know an interview or

re-release of an old episode, did the interview of me on the anxiety stream and stuff like that and that was nice to have a

little bit of a break so I could live some life but now I'm excited to be back

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