You know what we don't want is for this to be such a scary experience and such a

unraveling experience that you back off from it again and you put that book even

higher up on the shelf in the restricted section of your mind's library right that's

not what we want we We want you to feel

confident. We want you to have coping tools and the ability to withstand the work

that you're going to be doing. 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 all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast episode

2 85. 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 for you if you have a question that you'd like to submit for the

podcast you can send it into me at depth the psych at dream-mele.com I've gotten a ton of really good questions lately so thank you for those

but please keep them coming. It's very helpful for me to have you know a variety of

questions to choose from. I like to try to you know mix it up on the show so I'm not

covering the same things all the time so it's good to have a variety of things to

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