And that's not necessarily going to be helpful. You know, again, you want to take stock of this.

When you're sad and you listen to that sad playlist, does it just drive you deeper or does it help you in some sort of way in the end?

What's satisfying is not always what's good for you and that's really

where this sort of mindfulness of tracking and paying attention to how things do affect you can come into play.

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. This is the hard varieties, this is the Hardcore Health

Help Podcast episode 218. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the

Psych. I make mental health content for real people, just you and it is hot as balls this week.

Oh my god I am not even in the hottest place in California by far but it's been to or 108, 100, almost 10 I think earlier this week and right now it's about 10 o'clock at night and it's still well into the 80s or 90s. I'm sweating and I've been

tripping over my words all night recording and re-recording stuff for this

episode so please forgive me if I am a little loony, if I don't make sense.

Today for the episode, we're going to be doing something a little bit different.

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