But for a lot of people who have these crippling symptoms, it can be hard to find the motivation to do any of those things.

It can be hard to find the motivation or energy to exercise, or there are a lot of people who can't even benefit from therapy because they're struggling so much with their symptoms that they can't focus in a therapy session or they can't integrate what the therapist is talking about because they're just not there yet. They're struggling too much.

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 in 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 214. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people,

just like you.

And today we have a question,

amper, the hell, question and answer episode.

Off to a great start, Robert, great start. Hey, I want to mention if you're new to the

podcast and you don't really know what I'm all about, check out Duff the Psych.com slash

start here that has basically my greatest hits talks about my books my TEDx talk some

my you know most popular blog posts and podcast episodes gives you a great starting place to learn

a little bit more about me and my whole sh stick which is exactly what I say in the intro.

I try to make mental health content for real people you know trying to talk about you know big topics and

complicated topics sometimes but in a way that's approachable.

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