Episode 267: Moving Forward From Trauma & Relationship Boundaries and Expectations

The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Alright, everyone! Another great Q&A for you featuring the following questions:

How can I move past my traumatic history of bullying and parental violence?
What is the difference between a friendship and intimate relationship?

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As always, you can send me your questions to [email protected] and show notes are available at duffthepsych.com/episode267

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0:00.0	but you do want to be careful about whether you're truly noticing him pulling away rapidly and treating you in a way that you don't prefer
0:23.6	versus you know what might be sort of a borderline or other tendency to just be very sensitive to signs of rejection and to react strongly when you think you're catching a whiff of abandonment, you know, like, oh, he's pulling away. Yeah, this is it. This is the end. And then you kind of flip into that black and white thinking it was great now it's terrible I fucked everything up it's done great hey everybody
0:28.1	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
0:34.7	and life in general and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously
0:39.2	encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your
0:44.0	limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to
0:48.4	skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens.
0:54.1	If you need to skip, that's okay, but, you know, feel free to give it a shot first.
0:58.2	I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist.
1:03.0	This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help.
1:08.0	So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right.
1:27.7	All right.
1:28.7	Hello friends of all varieties,
1:29.9	this is the Hardcore Self-Help podcast episode 267. I'm here
1:34.2	with Dr Robert Duff aka the psych I make mental health content for real people
1:38.9	just like you and today I have a question to answer for you to awesome questions that you guys sent in.
1:45.0	If you'd like to send in a question to the podcast, please shoot me an email to Duff the Psych at gmail.
1:51.0	Or go to Duff the Psych. psych and use the contact page there. I have a little
1:55.4	box that you can write into. I don't often check my social media messages for questions or
2:00.9	things like that so email is the best way to do that and as always you know the
2:05.1	guidelines for that are you know a few sentences to maybe a paragraph and link not too long
2:09.9	otherwise I'm not going to be able to get to it on the show and I won't be able to sort through all of it for figuring out whether it's a question for the show or not.
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