Episode 247: Health Anxiety During a Pandemic & Suicidality in Children
The Hardcore Self Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Got another Q&A episode for you. The 2nd question in here could be potentially triggering to some, so please be aware of that. It doesn't go into anything explicit, but the topic is something that some may be sensitive to. Here's what we cover:
- How can I use exposure to treat health anxiety during this pandemic?
- My friend's 6-year-old child has suicidal thoughts. How can I best support them?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of times kids are more able to express themselves through activities, through play, through things like that. |
| 0:05.8 | They don't have the same brain development that you do. So simply spending time with them, |
| 0:10.3 | engaging with them on their level, that will open the door for them to ask you |
| 0:14.3 | questions if they want to or tell you things that are important in this situation. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:21.8 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics |
| 0:24.3 | related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:28.2 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult content but also respect and |
| 0:34.3 | recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if |
| 0:39.1 | 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 |
| 0:48.8 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:53.7 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 0:57.6 | substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the |
| 1:01.6 | show. All right. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast episode 247. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:29.2 | I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a question and |
| 1:34.3 | answer episode got two questions for you the second one requires a little bit of a |
| 1:40.0 | content warning again as, nothing very explicit, but topically we're going to be talking about |
| 1:47.1 | suicide and in particular suicidal ideation in a child. So if that's something very sensitive to you, just be aware of that that's |
| 1:54.8 | going to be in the second question. So somewhere around, you know, halfway through the episode. |
| 2:00.8 | If you, you know, want to try it out and go right ahead but if you can't listen to it no problem at all again |
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