Episode 220: I Don't Want Kids & Can I Call Therapist Between Sessions?
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends!
Just a nice Q&A episode for you this week. Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and care after the last episode. Things are definitely improving around here. Expect an update on our life soon! For today, here are the questions covered:
- I have been struggling between therapy sessions, but don't want to bother my therapist about it. What can I do?
- Should I go to therapy since I don't want to have kids following the death of my mother?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and if you'd like to learn more about all that I do, check out duffthepsych.com/starthere
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| 0:00.0 | I also think it's important to remember that you are the expert on you. |
| 0:04.3 | Nobody else is. You know people from the outside sure can have observations they can have |
| 0:10.0 | opinions about you know what they see but if you're saying that you're pretty happy overall, then I'm inclined to agree with you. |
| 0:17.2 | You know better than anybody else how your mood is. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:23.7 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and some of those |
| 0:28.8 | 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. |
| 0:37.0 | 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 |
| 0:44.7 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 0:48.7 | 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. |
| 0:55.4 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:00.6 | 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. All Right. Hello, Friends of All Varieties. |
| 1:22.6 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 220. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:29.0 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you, and today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:34.0 | You know what I've been referring back to my books a lot recently with therapy patients |
| 1:39.8 | of mine and just other people in general so I thought maybe it's a good opportunity to |
| 1:43.9 | remind you that I do have some books. I am an author. That's kind of the start of |
| 1:47.6 | this whole hardcore self-help thing is I have a book series called the |
| 1:50.6 | Hardcore Self-Help book series. There are two books within that series, so if you're not familiar with them, they are called |
| 1:56.3 | Fuck Anxiety and Fuck Depression. |
| 1:58.8 | So they're short, kind of humorous books, obviously by the title title and the idea is to give you |
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