Episode 187: Making Doctors Take You Seriously, Catching Emotions in the Moment, One-Sided Sexual Relationship
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
You guys seriously have the best questions. In this episode, I answer these three:
- How can I get my doctors to take me seriously and not blame everything on anxiety?
- What can I do about my one-sided sexual relationship?
- How can I catch my strong emotions in the moment.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So rather than finding out exactly what's going on with him or between you, you make assumptions. |
| 0:05.0 | You have to make assumptions because you don't have any other data to pull from. |
| 0:07.8 | So you know, you think about things. |
| 0:09.7 | Is it because he's actually asexual and doesn't want to tell me is it because he's unsure about |
| 0:14.1 | his own sexuality has he had trauma that he hasn't worked through yet and feels |
| 0:17.6 | closed off is he super scared about something happening the first time |
| 0:20.6 | whatever who knows and it's not important to go down all those rabbit |
| 0:24.9 | holes because you don't know. And when you don't talk about it, that's what you're left with. |
| 0:28.9 | You all you can do is make assumptions. |
| 0:30.8 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:34.9 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and |
| 0:39.2 | some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:41.3 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in |
| 0:43.9 | consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your |
| 0:47.3 | limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to |
| 0:51.8 | skip a question or an episode entirely but feel |
| 0:54.4 | free to feel it out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip |
| 0:58.0 | that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say |
| 1:02.2 | that while I am a psychologist I'm not your |
| 1:04.2 | psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct |
| 1:08.0 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:11.3 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. All right. All right. |
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