All these things sound pretty similar to anxiety, right?

But the thing is, in those circumstances where all those feelings are happening because you're excited about something,

you don't freak out, you don't get scared of them you don't get mad at

yourself for feeling them you're not like oh my god you idiot you're feeling

this again and you don't get scared like oh I think I might be dying

unless you already have anxiety and that just triggers it but you know in general you don't necessarily

think of them that way and that's because you're not interpreting them as anxiety.

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 and consuming difficult content but also respect and

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offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check

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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-Help Podcast episode 255.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.

I make mental health content for real people, just like you.

Today we have another question

answer episode to really good questions that listeners like you sent in. The

sort of broad theme for the questions today is kind of about getting help when you don't have good access to

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