And the goal is not to forget it. You're not going to forget the memory, you're not going to forget what happened.

But you want to store it in a way that's more similar to all of your other bad memories that don't make you feel like you're experiencing something terrible again.

It's a bad memory, it's something that you don't really want to think about, but it's not

threatening to you in the same way.

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 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?

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

Podcast episode 221. 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 and answer episode. Please excuse me if I'm a little

lower on the energy today. I've been trying to adjust my sleep schedule. I realized, you know, it's interesting. I've always been a night owl and I've

progressively, you know, over the years since like graduate school kind of try to change my habits. In early graduate school, it wouldn't be unheard of for me to like go to sleep at two or three in the morning, wake up at like five or six. Like I didn't get a whole lot of sleep and there was even a point in time. This is a story that I always you know

tell people but there's a point in time where I was like maybe I could just sleep every

other day. That sounds like a good idea. I can increase my productivity. I've pulled

all night before it wasn't that hard so I can just sleep every other day.

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