Episode 252: Divorcing Someone Who is Depressed & Going Back to College After 30
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! After a long ramble about some terribly nerdy stuff, I get into two really good listener questions today. Here's what I cover:
- My spouse claims that I am the cause of their depression and we do not have a good relationship. Would divorcing them cause too much harm?
- I am back in college as a 30 year old and feel out of place. What should I do?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode252
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| 0:00.0 | While family and loved ones play a certain role in our mental health, like I said, you're just not responsible for them. |
| 0:07.5 | You're your own human too and you can feel compassion and have boundaries at the same time. It can hurt you to have to, you know, make a decision about this and at the same time you can recognize that it might be the right decision for you. |
| 0:22.0 | If it is. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:27.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general |
| 0:31.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to |
| 0:33.9 | simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but |
| 0:37.7 | also respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I |
| 0:42.3 | will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, |
| 0:46.0 | 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 |
| 0:54.4 | that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist |
| 0:58.2 | this is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:02.1 | substitute for professional help. |
| 1:04.4 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. Oh, it's good. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:28.3 | Podcast episode 252. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:37.0 | And today I have another question and answer to fantastic questions sent in by listeners like you. If you'd like to send in a question please do so |
| 1:45.5 | at duff the psych at gmail.com or using the the uh what you call it what's a call guys? What is it? |
| 1:53.8 | Contact page. The contact page of my website, dove the psych.com. |
| 1:57.4 | I've also had a lot of questions recently about hey have you done this type of |
| 2:01.6 | episode or have you ever covered this on the |
| 2:03.4 | podcast? Things like that and I just wanted to remind you that if you go to duff the |
| 2:07.6 | psych and use the search bar, it's a really good way to find topics. As I said |
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