It could be bullet points. It could be full paragraphs. It could be scribbles. It could be anything.

But just write your goddamn hand off. You know, make it your goal to burn through an entire journal

just for this reason, just to process this. Right until you're tired of hearing yourself think and

talk about this topic. 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 all varieties. This is the hardcore self-help podcast episode 234.

I'm your house Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people, just like you. And hey guys, happy new year. So yeah, full disclosure,

today I am going to be taking a question, very broad question and trying to address it. And I'm only going to do one question today. Kind of easing back into the podcast. Thank you for being patient. If you even noticed that I was gone for a couple of weeks, you know, just took some time with the holidays. I had a good opportunity to do so where I wasn't on the hook for any advertisers or anything like that. And it was nice. I was starting to feel like, oh, God, where am I going to fit in, you know, podcasting this week? And I'm a terrible podcaster. Like, I never have extra content in the bank. You know, a lot of people who are very successful podcasters have like five episodes sort of just like in the can ready to go

they plan their editorial calendar out way ahead that ain't me that is not me and um especially not me right

now as i've actually been working quite a lot like with you know my real quote unquote real job doing

you know therapy and testing and stuff like that. So I have not been proactive about

things. And so I end up scrambling each week and getting an episode together. And it usually

works out pretty well. But recently I've been like, you know what? It's the holidays. I can take a

little bit of time. And so I did. I know that I don't always announce that type of thing,

though. So here I am again. So it's currently, as I'm recording this, the 6th, so January 6th.

It's been a bit of a day today. First off, today is the day that random ass domestic domestic terrorist, insurrectionist weirdos storm the Capitol and broke into the chambers of Congress. And a lot happened with that and it's continuing to happen with that and highlighted a lot of

problematic things in a variety of contexts including just more highlighting of inequities and

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