Episode 201: Managing News and Media Intake
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Why hello, everyone. I hope you're quarantine is slightly less maddening than mine... I will likely be putting out episodes that are directly or indirectly related to our collective experience of the covid-19 pandemic for a while.
Today's episode is an entire module from my online course, Kick Anxiety's Ass, which is have extended enrollments in until this pandemic has chilled the heck out. This is module 8: The World Is Crazy.
There are three lessons covering ways to better manage the flow of information from news and social media. There is so much information and so many updates right now that it's easy to fall into a pattern of compulsively checking your phone. I hope this helps <3
This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. They are a great option for finding support while you are stuck in your home.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There's one really, really important thing that I want you to take away from this and if you take away nothing else from this whole module, |
| 0:05.5 | this is what I want you to take away. |
| 0:07.5 | Your awareness of what's happening in the |
| 0:15.0 | show does have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it's happening. Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:18.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those could |
| 0:23.8 | be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in |
| 0:27.9 | consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:32.0 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:38.0 | 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 |
| 0:43.5 | free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not |
| 0:47.9 | your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct |
| 0:52.0 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:56.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. I'm going to be free. All right. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 201. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:27.3 | And yeah, we are still in the midst of this quarantineing |
| 1:31.8 | self-isolation, sheltering in place. quarantine, |
| 1:33.0 | sheltering in place, social distancing, |
| 1:36.0 | stuff. Holy crap. |
| 1:38.0 | It's a lot guys, I know. |
| 1:40.0 | I am here in the house with myself, my wife, various other people, our kids, our dogs, lots of people in one house and we aren't able to really go anywhere and we're going |
| 1:56.5 | stir-crazing and we're trying to make life work and none of us have jobs anymore and |
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