Episode 263: Treating Family Members & Sibling Mental Health Fears
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! At the start of this episode, I give a quick little ramble about a case that I'm working on to talk about some of the nuances with conservatorship and trying to help someone that can't care for their own needs. That's about the first 10 minutes. After that, I hop into the following questions:
- My family thinks I should be able to fix them since I'm studying psychology. What should I do?
- My sibling is afraid of having the same mental illness as me and our parent. How can I help?
As always, you can send your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and check out the full show notes at duffthepsych.com/episode263
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| 0:00.0 | and that would help them to gain some self-efficacy, self-efficacy being essentially confidence in yourself, |
| 0:06.3 | not like self-esteem and feeling like you're a good person, but confidence that regardless of what comes your way, |
| 0:12.4 | you'll be able to find a way to adapt to it that you have |
| 0:14.8 | options that you're not stuck. |
| 0:16.3 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:20.3 | 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. |
| 0:26.5 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:34.2 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:35.9 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free |
| 0:40.2 | to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, |
| 0:44.4 | but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, |
| 0:49.2 | 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. |
| 0:57.0 | So with those said, let's good. All right. |
| 1:17.5 | Hello friends of all varieties, |
| 1:19.6 | this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcasts, |
| 1:21.4 | episode 263. |
| 1:23.5 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:26.5 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:29.9 | And today I have a question-answer an episode. |
| 1:31.8 | Hopefully, Mr. Cricket isn't loud as fuck tonight |
| 1:35.0 | like he was last time. |
| 1:37.3 | I was so annoyed with the last episode. |
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