Episode 204: Dr. Drew Anderson on Staying Afloat During COVID-19
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! This is a great interview with Dr. Drew Anderson, a licensed psychologist specializing in assessing and treating eating disorders, body image disturbance, and the psychological and medical problems associated with these things. Keeping with the COVID-19 focus, we chat about things you need to look out for with regard to disordered eating behaviors when you're in quarantine, as well as things anybody can do to help regulate themselves and stay afloat as well as possible during this period.
As always, you can send me questions or suggestions for future episodes to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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| 0:20.0 | easy to kind of get into this downward spiral of I'm not showered you know I feel a little off because you know I'm not getting out doing stuff it's just easier to just not interact and I think that can start that downward kind of more depressive spiral of, you know, withdrawing and feeling a little more passive and so then you don't feel good and you feel more passive and you feel more Avoidant and withdrawn and you know that's I think you know one of those models for |
| 0:24.0 | depression is that kind of avoidance spiral and I think it's really easy to do if you're |
| 0:28.4 | not forced in interacting with classmates or office mates and you know your boss |
| 0:32.3 | and coworkers or whatever. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:38.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general |
| 0:42.4 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:44.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect |
| 0:50.2 | and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:52.2 | So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you |
| 0:55.2 | need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the |
| 0:59.6 | episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 1:04.9 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:10.1 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:15.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:37.7 | Podcast episode 204. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:42.8 | I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:45.8 | And if you're a new listener, you may or may not know |
| 1:49.9 | what the normal format of the show is, |
| 1:51.6 | typically alternate back and forth doing Q&A. what the normal format of the show is, typically, |
| 1:52.6 | I alternate back and forth doing Q&A |
| 1:55.4 | and also interviews with interesting people |
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