So, you know, when people say, oh, it's all in your mind, like everything's in your mind, and the mind is powerful as fuck, right?

And it's powerful enough to cause you to have actual real physical symptoms or illnesses.

So in the same way a placebo can have a very, very real effect on

somebody if they believe that it will.

Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. 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.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and

recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended

if 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 I also need to say that while I am a psychologist

I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.

This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for

professional help.

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 Health Podcast episode 250.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you.

And today I have a question and answer with two

questions to actually kind of relatively straightforward shorter questions

today but I hope you're all doing well it It is hot as balls here today. It's been very very weird weather-wise.

I'm in California Southern California and you know weather is usually pretty good, but it's been like it rain this week and then today it was like in the

90s Fahrenheit so it's been very strange but you know not bad and we got the outdoor space in our backyard set up.

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