Episode 279: I Don't Deserve to Get Better & Fixing Relationship During a Break
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! Apologies in advance for my croaky voice. My voice is totally shot from the week, but I do my best to give you responses to the following awesome questions:
- I have brought about my own problems and don't feel that I deserve to get better. How do I approach this seemingly insurmountable problem?
- My partner and I are on a break to work on ourselves after suffering a number of losses and a terrible year overall. How can I make this work?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode279
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| 0:00.0 | I think a lot of people get caught up on that feeling like okay well why would I even you know do this it's not going to make that big of a difference |
| 0:07.6 | How could it change everything it doesn't have to change everything right you're going from zero so if if you move up from there, it's all moving up. So that matters, even if it doesn't feel like it's going to be a gigantic change. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:23.7 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:28.1 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:30.3 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:37.0 | 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 |
| 0:44.3 | it out check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's |
| 0:47.4 | okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am |
| 0:52.0 | a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:55.3 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for |
| 0:59.8 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All varieties. This is Friends of All Varieties. |
| 1:23.1 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast, episode 279. |
| 1:26.7 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:29.6 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. And today I have a question |
| 1:34.2 | answer episode to really really good questions. If you would like to send in a |
| 1:38.3 | question yourself please do so. My email is duff the psych at gmail |
| 1:42.3 | and that's the best way to send me questions. |
| 1:45.0 | As I've said before please keep it to you know at max like a paragraph you know |
| 1:50.0 | keep it reasonable so that I can actually get through it and potentially |
| 1:53.5 | read it on the show. I can't spend, you know, like 10 whole minutes reading through |
| 1:57.3 | a question while I'm recording this. So, you know, it's got to be, you know, |
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