Episode 244: "Accidental" Overdose & Becoming a Psychologist with Bipolar
The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope you're having a really good week. This is a Q&A episode with two really important questions. The first one talks about a suicide attempt in a non-graphic way. I wanted to let you know that off the bat so you can be aware going into it. Nothing intense or visually striking, but potentially triggering nonetheless.
Questions for this episode:
- I had a suicide attempt that everyone thinks was an accidental overdose. Do I need to tell my family the truth?
- I have severe bipolar 1 and I have always wanted to become a psychologist and do therapy. Is this possible?
As always you can send me your questions to [email protected] and if you'd like to see the full show notes head over to duffthepsych.com/episode244
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| 0:00.0 | A big complaint about mental health professionals is that like they just don't seem like they actually understand it like on on paper they might but they don't know what it's like so it's like trying to explain it from scratch and you're speaking a different language. |
| 0:13.7 | So being able to actually understand is very, very powerful. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:21.4 | 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. |
| 0:27.5 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:35.2 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:36.9 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel |
| 0:41.0 | free to feel it out, check out the the episode and just see what happens if you |
| 0:44.2 | need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also |
| 0:48.3 | need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your |
| 0:52.1 | therapist this is not intended to be direct medical I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:53.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:58.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. |
| 1:21.0 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:22.3 | Podcast episode 244. I'm your host |
| 1:25.2 | Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people |
| 1:29.7 | just like you. And today I have a question and answer again two really good questions I do |
| 1:36.0 | want to just straight off the front here talk about the content so I need to give a |
| 1:40.4 | bit of a content warning the first first question, not the second, but the first question has to do with |
| 1:46.8 | suicide. So this may be triggering to you if this is a topic that is, you know, extremely |
| 1:51.8 | sensitive for you. there are no graphic |
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