Episode 270: The Problem with Mental Healthcare & Overlapping Diagnoses

The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych

Robert Duff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hello, friends! In this episode, I answer a couple listener questions that are less about direct advice and more about general questions in the field of mental health and psychology. Here's what I cover:

Why are there so few mental health providers and why are waitlists so long?
Does it make sense to have multiple overlapping diagnoses?

As always, you can send me your questions to [email protected] and full show notes are at duffthepsych.com/episode270

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0:00.0	One issue in general that I'll say is that a lot of people aren't actually diagnosed or they're diagnosed poorly.
0:07.0	I can't tell you the number of times that I see somebody come in and they say, oh yeah, I have OCD or oh yeah, I have ADHD, I have this. I have that. And I go, okay, where did you get that diagnosis? And they go, oh, you know,
0:17.2	years ago, my primary care doctor told me that I did. I'm like, oh, okay. So they
0:21.0	didn't actually diagnose you.
0:23.2	Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers.
0:26.8	This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general,
0:31.3	and some of those could be sensitive for you.
0:33.2	I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult
0:37.2	content but also respect and recognize your limitations.
0:40.4	So please use your best judgment.
0:42.4	I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely,
0:46.0	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's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am
0:55.2	a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is not intended to be direct
1:00.3	medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for
1:03.0	professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right.
1:24.0	Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 270.
1:29.0	I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych.
1:32.0	I make mental health content for real people, just like you.
1:35.0	And today I have a question and answer. This one is going to be, there's kind of like a broad theme to the questions. I have two questions that were sent in by listeners like yourself
1:46.8	and I'm not going to be directly answering mental health questions about these people's lives necessarily.
1:53.2	These are more broadly about sort of like the field of psychology,
1:57.5	mental health in general, things like that.
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