I will also say never be afraid to challenge your therapist or tell him your needs.

You know if you need him to slow down and maybe approach this more gently and more tentatively,

ask him that or let him know that.

If you think he's off base and might be missing the point, tell him that.

You know, tell him in whatever way you feel comfortable, whether that's in-person, in email, whatever.

You know, say that you've been looking into it and you're not totally sure.

Like you're not saying for sure you don't, but you need to have a conversation about it.

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. go. All right.

Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 261.

I'm your host Dr Robert Duff

aka duff the psych I make mental health content for real people just like you and I

got a question-and-answer episode for you Two real good questions, pretty short, not on the longer

side as far as questions go, which is nice every once in a while. If you guys want to send in a question,

there's kind of a sweet spot that I'll say like you know a few

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