Episode 254: Reliving Trauma Through Avoidant Personality Disorder & Desperation, Parenting and Life with Major Depressive Disorder
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! Hopefully you are doing well and sleeping better than I have been recently. Yikes. This episode is another Q&A with some awesome and vulnerable listener-submitted questions. Here's what I cover:
- Why do I keep gravitating toward media that reminds me of my trauma?
- I feel like a failure of a mother due to my depression. What can I do?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at duffthepsych.com/episode254
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| 0:00.0 | Also, you need to keep in mind that as somebody with depression, you're probably doing a lot of mental filtering, |
| 0:06.0 | meaning you only notice the things in your life that already support the negative way you feel about yourself. |
| 0:12.0 | It's sort of a form of confirmation bias. |
| 0:14.3 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:18.3 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in |
| 0:22.4 | general and some of those could be sensitive for you. of respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:32.5 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:34.3 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question |
| 0:36.6 | or an episode entirely. |
| 0:38.1 | But feel free to feel it out, check out the episode |
| 0:40.5 | and just see what happens. |
| 0:41.4 | If you need to skip,'s okay but you know feel |
| 0:43.4 | free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm |
| 0:47.6 | not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be |
| 0:51.6 | direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:55.0 | So with those said, let's great. |
| 1:03.0 | It's great. |
| 1:05.0 | Great. |
| 1:06.0 | Great. |
| 1:07.0 | It's great. |
| 1:08.0 | Great. |
| 1:10.0 | It's great. |
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