My relationship with my kids will change and grow through this and that's important.

There's ways that my relationship with my wife, with my girlfriend, you know, with my cousin.

There's ways that this will all change and grow and that's important to recognize as well. So, you know, there is the bad, there is the good, there is the neutral, all of those things exist at the same time, and it's okay to recognize all of those.

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 and 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, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 205. 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 am doing sort of an off-the-cuff episode.

I had tried to get something kind of fun together for you, but it didn't really work out

partially because I couldn't find people, partially because I didn't push that hard to find people

to be a part of it. We'll talk about that. But yeah, that didn't push that hard to find people to be a part of it.

We'll talk about that.

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