And so what you're trying to do is practice becoming more and more efficient at allowing that thought to be there without freaking yourself out about it and then refocusing back on whatever your focal point is at that time, a task that you're working on or whatever you're trying to focus on.

And with practice you can get more and more efficient at that. It doesn't make the thought go away necessarily,

but it makes the thought less impactful so it's not as scary to you.

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. All right.

Hello friends of all varieties. All right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health

Health Podcast episode 194.

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 episode, three really cool questions, kind of generally all anxiety

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