Episode 238: Support Group Problems & Grad School Doubts

The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

Health & Fitness, Robertduff, Education, Duffthepsych, Mental Health, Psychology, Selfhelp, Advice, Drduff

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hello, everyone! Hope you're treating yourselves well this week. I have a great Q&A for you with the following questions:

I have had trouble with support groups. The competition to be the "sickest" makes me feel worse. Am I doing something wrong?
I am having doubts about whether I should be in my graduate school program. What should I do?

As always you can send me YOUR questions to [email protected] and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode238

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0:00.0	It's hard to see past your scope when you're in the thick of it, but even something simple like drawing your life out on a timeline, you know from from birth or from childhood to now to the future, in looking at it in terms of actual years and actual time.
0:14.3	That can help you shift your perspective a little bit and clarify in the grand scheme
0:18.5	how little time this is. Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.
0:24.0	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.
0:30.0	I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and
0:36.3	recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment I will never be
0:40.4	offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out,
0:45.2	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.
0:50.9	I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.
0:56.0	This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.
1:01.0	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
1:25.0	Help Podcast episode 238.
1:27.0	I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.
1:30.0	I make mental health content for real people just like you and yeah hey
1:35.6	today I have a question and answer two questions for you I am always hoping to
1:40.6	get more questions I'm actually not running low but not as many as usual.
1:46.2	So if you have any questions or topics you'd like me to cover for the show, please send them to me.
1:50.7	Best place to do that is Duff the Psych at gmail.com and I have a nice folder of questions
1:56.2	that I always look through for episodes on there. On social media I don't always see the questions.
2:00.9	So if you want me to for sure see it, send's my email that's the best way to do it.
2:05.9	But yeah, question I answered today. It's been an interesting week, you know, I
2:11.6	for some reason just haven't had a lot of inspiration to put this episode together.
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