Episode 208: Trouble With Video Therapy, Second Language Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Quick reminder that easing of COVID-19 restrictions does not mean that the pandemic is over. For the sake of at-risk people like me, please continue being smart.
That said, this episode is a 2-question Q&A covering the following:
- I feel like I'm getting less out of video therapy. What can I do?
- I have massive anxiety speaking my 2nd language about certain people. How can I become less anxious?
As always, you can send me questions, topics, or feedback to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So you get scared of the fact that you're having anxiety, you get fear of that fear, and that is what makes things snowball and really kick-start things. |
| 0:07.0 | So by practicing and getting better at being anxious by continuing to push yourself in that way, and we're going to talk about how to do it |
| 0:14.0 | and you know gradually not not in a way that's really going to freak you out but as you |
| 0:18.1 | get better at tolerating that anxiety you start to fear it less. |
| 0:20.9 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple of disclaimers. |
| 0:25.2 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and |
| 0:29.5 | some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:31.6 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in |
| 0:34.3 | brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your |
| 0:37.7 | limitations so please use your best judgment I will never be offended if you need to |
| 0:42.1 | skip a question or an episode entirely but |
| 0:44.6 | feel free to feel it out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to |
| 0:48.1 | 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 |
| 0:54.5 | psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical |
| 0:58.7 | 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 2008. |
| 1:27.0 | I am your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:30.0 | I make mental health content for real people, just like like you and today I have a question and answer |
| 1:34.6 | episode. I'm doing another just two questions this week. I'm probably going to stick to two questions |
| 1:40.3 | for a little while just because it's easier. I'm having a very hard |
| 1:44.4 | time finding good space and time to record. So you might notice that some weeks |
| 1:48.6 | it's released on Thursday, some weeks it's released on Friday, just due to, staying at home having the kids at home things like that |
| 1:55.8 | It's been hard to find times to work and I've been shoving work into odd hours and things like that so this is right now during Leo's nap time. |
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