Episode 190: Ketamine Risks, Hoarding, ACT Therapy
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Super happy to bring you this question and answer episode. You'll have to excuse my congestion. The plague continues in the Duff household. If you'd like to get a 4th bonus question, check out my patreon at http://patreon.com/duffthepsych
Here are the questions covered this week:
- Should I be worried about the risks of Ketamine infusions?
- How can I help my mother stop hoarding?
- What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
As always, if you have questions or topics to suggest, send them over to duffthepsych@gmail.com and stop by my start here page to learn more about what I do!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Essentially the way I think of it is your your values are sort of your compass and if you have a compass of your values to guide you |
| 0:05.9 | It's a lot easier to ignore the the the screaming immediate suffering that you might feel that's telling you avoid this or |
| 0:13.7 | lash out at this or do this negative thing. Instead you could say okay that |
| 0:17.3 | feeling is there but what is my compass telling me right what is my compass |
| 0:21.1 | telling me and intellectually in the back of your mind, you know that |
| 0:24.3 | this value is something that means something to you and you should listen to that. You should give that |
| 0:28.8 | more weight. |
| 0:29.8 | 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. |
| 0:40.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:47.0 | 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 |
| 0:54.3 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know |
| 0:58.1 | feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:05.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:10.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. Hello, friends of all Varieties, this is the Hardcore Health |
| 1:33.7 | Help Podcast episode 190. |
| 1:35.8 | I am your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:38.5 | I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:41.6 | And today I have a question and answer episode I have three well |
| 1:45.2 | four technically really great questions for you guys covering a wide variety of |
| 1:49.3 | topics so I'm excited to get into it before that I wanted to let you know a couple sort of housekeeping things. |
| 1:55.0 | One if you want to learn more about me and everything that I do, please just visit my website. |
| 1:59.5 | Go to duff the psych.com slash start here. |
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