There are a lot of great and desirable aspects of your personality that are on display here

and we don't want to lose that completely. We just want to mold this into something that works better for you,

something that doesn't put you into such painful situations. So start with that, you know,

recognition. You're not dumb for this. You're not a failure at

relationships. You're not desperate. You're not just desperate. You have a

huge capacity for love

and care and I think that's an awesome baseline to start from we just need to you

know as I said make it more useful for you. 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 limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be

offended if you need to 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 Hello Friends of All Varieties.

This is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast episode 273.

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

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

episode hopefully I keep it recording this time and don't have to record it twice tonight

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