The instinct a lot of people would have is to kind of talk themselves out of that fear, to try to talk themselves out of that fear by reassuring themselves that that feared scenario won't happen, right? So trying to convince yourself, oh no, that wouldn't happen. You're not going to embarrass yourself, you know, nothing bad is going to happen, and trying to basically directly combat that, you know, maybe illogical fear that you have in in some ways that can give the

potential event that you're talking about this this hypothetical scenario it gives it too much

credit 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

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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. All right.

Hello, friends of all varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 266.

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

I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a question and answer episode

Two really good questions and I will do my best to answer them

Obviously and I will do my best to answer them. Obviously.

I wanted to give you guys a quick update my book.

I don't know if I mentioned this on the show before.

Maybe I did. I don't know, I mentioned that I was working on a

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