If you don't let on very well about what you're going through, you know, if you hide it pretty well or you just function, you know, decently in day-to-day life and put on a good face,

people might not know that you're struggling with a mental health difficulty and then when you you know cancel plans or say

no to things or don't reach out or you know any other things that might come up when you are depressed, they won't exactly

have the information they need to interpret that appropriately. They might think that you're

blowing them off because you don't like them or you don't care.

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, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health Help

Podcast episode 232. 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'm doing something a little bit different. You may hear, I'm not sure how much this mic picks up,

but you may hear some signs of life in environmental sounds.

There's actually like a literal fucking rooster at this house over here.

I'm at the park.

So I was working from home today I mean as I do most days working from home and the kids were with a nanny and they were just playing you know as they normally do, but just everywhere around where I wanted to be and work and recorded and stuff like that.

So I'm like, let's go outside.

Actually, my wife had the idea.

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