Episode 241: Coping with Loneliness & Negative Self Perceptions and Insecurities

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

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Hello, all! Hope you're happyish and safeish out there. This is a two-question Q&A episode featuring the following:

I've tried just about everything to help myself but the pandemic is making it impossible to improve my loneliness. What can I do?
I'm worried about my boyfriend looking at hotter women on social media. What can I do about this insecurity?

As always, you can send me your questions to [email protected] and view the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode241

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0:00.0	you know if you have a backpack full of 100 bricks you're going to be having a bad time
0:04.5	it's gonna it's gonna be really hard to carry around that backpack if you can at all
0:09.1	and if something you do takes out you know two, two or three bricks here, two or three bricks there,
0:15.2	you know, a combination of efforts takes out maybe 40 bricks, that's going to be a lot lighter.
0:22.0	But you're still carrying around a bag of 60 bricks and that's going to be a lot lighter. But you're still carrying around a bag of 60 bricks
0:24.4	and that's still fucking heavy, right?
0:26.2	That's a lot.
0:27.4	But it is 40 bricks lighter.
0:30.3	Hey everybody, before we start the show,
0:32.1	I want to make a couple disclaimers.
0:34.0	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.
0:40.0	I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations.
0:47.5	So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel
0:53.8	free to feel it out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to
0:57.2	skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to
1:01.5	say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.
1:05.6	This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.
1:11.3	So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help
1:34.3	podcast episode 241. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the
1:39.1	Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a question and
1:44.6	answer episode for you. Thank you guys for the good feedback about the last
1:48.5	episode which was basically just me talking about rambling really about
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