I always find that making something new is a great way to sort of

almost like balance the cosmic scales as cheesy as that sounds you know you've lost

something in your life so a good way of sort of balancing those skills is to bring

something new about create something new in your life, and it could be anything. It could be art or a hobby. It could be a new relationship. Shoot, it could be rolling a new character in a video game or in a d&D game,

anything, literally anything that's bringing about something new, creation,

is sort of the flip side of loss, and balancing those scales can be helpful.

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 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 230. 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 and answer episode, two questions as usual lately.

Hey, if you guys have questions, if you want to send them in, you can send them to

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at depth the psych.com. And if you want to know more about me including

like my online course and books and stuff like that just go to depth the psych

dot com slash start here I am not doing a like black Friday promotion or anything like that for my online course because I've already discounted it very steeply during the pandemic which continues to rage on like almost a year later so holy cow but that course is still available I have the

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