Episode 262: Feeling Bad for Wanting Attention & Diagnosis as a Crutch
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! So just a little heads up. I'm super annoyed because in this episode, there were a couple undesirable sounds including a loud as cricket that wanted to ruin my life and also a rattling microphone that was being dramatic whenever I slightly bumped it.
Aside from that, it was a great episode that covers the following questions:
- I love my partner, but I crave attention from others. Why am I this way and what can I do about it?
- I may have borderline personality disorder, but don't want my diagnosis to be a crutch. What can I do to live a normal life?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode262
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| 0:00.0 | Those two things are not mutually exclusive. You can be doing a good job, you can do a good job, you could be moving forward, you could be making progress in learning, and still have slip-ups or relapses or things like that. So please don't lie about them. That's not helpful and it actually limits |
| 0:16.3 | their ability to help you out as well than being your therapist or clinician. |
| 0:20.4 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:24.0 | 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. |
| 0:30.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming |
| 0:34.0 | difficult content but also respect and recognize your limitations. So please use |
| 0:38.8 | your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or |
| 0:42.4 | an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, |
| 0:45.2 | 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. |
| 0:51.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:56.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:01.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health |
| 1:25.0 | Health Podcast episode 262. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm your house Dr. Robert Duff, |
| 1:29.0 | aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:31.0 | I make mental health content for real people, |
| 1:33.1 | just like you, and also you, and you too. |
| 1:37.4 | Today I have a question-and-answer episode for you. |
| 1:40.7 | Two really good questions. |
| 1:42.2 | Some of this is, well the first question has a lot of trauma involved there in terms of the descriptions and things like that. |
| 1:51.1 | Nothing completely explicit, but if you have you know sexual trauma and that's something that's really sensitive to you. |
| 1:58.2 | Perhaps this is one that you should fast forward a little bit to the actual answer rather than listening to the question. |
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