Episode 203: COVID Q&A - Abuse in Isolation, Missing Touch, Dreading Going Back to Normal
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are continuing the trend of focusing on content related to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine. However, this week, we are getting back to the normal Q&A format. Here are the questions that are covered:
- What do I do about being stuck with my abusive mother during quarantine?
- I'm enjoying quarantine. What can I do about my dread of going back to normal?
- How can I deal with missing physical touch during quarantine?
As always you can send me questions for the show to duffthepsych@gmail.com.
This episode is sponsored by Lionrock Recovery. Check out lionrockrecovery.com/duff for more info about their confidential online treatment programs for substance use.
Don't forget the Kick Anxiety's Ass course will remain open until the end of quarantine before I close new enrollments.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So a lot of people are recognizing that hey a lot of these in-person meetings could be an email |
| 0:04.8 | Or at the very least they can be done remotely and we don't actually have to be in the office |
| 0:08.6 | There's a lot of things where we're realizing old standard ways of operating don't have to apply in every situation. |
| 0:15.9 | And so maybe there are some permanent changes that you can make to how your business runs that |
| 0:19.8 | you can take with you and gain a more favorable balance between closeness and distance in your life. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:30.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:34.4 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:36.5 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also |
| 0:41.2 | respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:45.2 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:49.1 | but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip that's |
| 0:53.4 | okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am |
| 0:58.0 | 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. |
| 1:07.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. I'm going to be free. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 203. |
| 1:32.4 | I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make |
| 1:35.3 | mental health content for real people just like you. And today we are |
| 1:39.2 | continuing the theme of doing you know the COVID-19 new coronavirus related content, but today we're doing kind of a more |
| 1:48.0 | traditional approach being Q&A. So I've been getting a lot of questions related to mental health topics during this period of time during quarantine, isolation, all of that. |
| 1:57.0 | So I have three really good questions that are related to that that I want to answer today. |
| 2:01.0 | A few quick announcements off the top so one just a reminder the online |
| 2:06.2 | course is still open, kick anxiety's ass, it's a 10 week course covering everything from |
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