Episode 239: Collective PTSD, No-Showing Therapy, Caregiving with Anxiety, Depression Options
The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! This week, I have another rapid-fire Q&A for you. I took some questions from the private Hardcore Self Help Facebook group and tackled them one by one without any planning or outlining. Hope you enjoy! Here are the questions covered:
- How do you feel about people using the term "collective PTSD"?
- What can I do when I always get scared and cancel therapy sessions?
- Are medications always necessary for severe depression?
- How can I be a caregiver with anxiety?
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of times we have sort of this core belief about ourselves. |
| 0:03.6 | It's like an internal hypothesis. |
| 0:06.2 | You know, it's we don't know for sure, but this is what we believe about ourselves. |
| 0:09.5 | This is what we think to be true. |
| 0:11.4 | And it's usually negative. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm not worthy or I'm I'm unpleasant to be around or I'm a bad person something like that. And so we can fall into these thinking traps which which I've talked about before, where we really |
| 0:24.6 | cherry pick out all the evidence in our lives that support that negative core belief we have |
| 0:29.6 | about ourselves, so it gets bigger and bigger and bigger, when in reality there might be other things that are either neutral or directly not supporting that internal hypothesis we have about ourselves. |
| 0:40.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple |
| 0:43.4 | disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health |
| 0:47.8 | and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to |
| 0:51.6 | simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, |
| 0:55.0 | but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:58.0 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 1:00.0 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, |
| 1:05.4 | 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. |
| 1:11.2 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:16.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:21.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the |
| 1:23.8 | show. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast, |
| 1:45.2 | episode 239. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
| 1:51.0 | content for real people just like you and today I have a another sort of rapid fire question and answer. When I do these basically I take you know several questions and I see how many I can get to and I answer them off the top of my head. |
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