And that guilt is one of the primary ways that he's able to control your behavior.

You know, by making you think that you're in the wrong or that you're the crazy one,

whether it's conscious or not on his part, it's a tactic and it's wrong.

You know, you shouldn't be made to feel guilty when you're the one being mistreated

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 great. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 215. 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 have a question to answer

episode. If you guys are new to the show I do a variety variety of things, but these days it's mostly Q&As and deep dive episodes for the questions.

You guys can send them to Duff the Psych at gmail.com.

Happy to get questions about anything, mental health, life, relationships, sex, academics, anything.

I look at all the questions. I don't always get back to everybody and I can't take every question on the show, but I need more questions so please do send them if you have any questions

I also tend to do deep dive episodes where I go deep on a single topic so if you have any topic suggestions feel free to send those over

and then in terms of other stuff, I occasionally do interviews.

I was doing a lot more of those before.

This whole COVID thing started.

Now it's very, very difficult for me to record interviews, so we'll be getting back to those someday.

We'll see when.

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