Episode 253: The Impact of Misdiagnosis & Recognizing Depression
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! After a little (big) ramble about the hardest part in my job as a neuropsychologist, I answer the following questions:
- Can bipolar misdiagnosis make symptoms worse? Can bipolar be managed without medication?
- Why can't I study or get out of bed at all?
As always, you can send me questions to [email protected] and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode253
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| 0:00.0 | It's not your fault that you feel like you can't get your shit together. That's how depression works. You know, it makes you feel like you can't do anything about your situation and then that makes you feel like crap because you haven't done anything about your situation and that drives you deeper. |
| 0:14.0 | Depression is icky and it's gross and it's insidious and that's how it does its thing. |
| 0:19.0 | So let's do something about this before it gets even more out of hand. |
| 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. |
| 0:33.7 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect |
| 0:39.0 | and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:41.0 | So please use your best judgment. I 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, |
| 0:51.0 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say |
| 0:54.6 | that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is |
| 0:59.3 | not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:02.4 | substitute for |
| 1:03.1 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd 3rd |
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| 1:18.0 | 3rd 3rd All right, hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:28.3 | Podcast episode 253. I'm here |
| 1:33.0 | your host Dr. Robert Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you |
| 1:36.4 | and today I have a question and answer episode to a very interesting question |
| 1:41.4 | sent in by listeners like you. If you want to send in a question |
| 1:44.8 | just shoot me an email duff the psych at gmail.com or go to duff the psych and use the contact |
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