Episode 287: Doubting Your Own Trauma & ADHD Misdiagnosis
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! This episode features two questions related to trauma. There is nothing violent or explicit described, but both questions do involve childhood abuse. Just be aware. Here is what is covered in this episode:
- I sometimes doubt that my trauma ever happened and use self-harm as a way to remind myself that it did. What can I do?
- I have several psychiatric disorders and my psychiatrist wants me to be evaluated for ADHD. How can I tell the difference between ADHD and symptoms caused by my other issues?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode287
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| 0:00.0 | So like this has become central to your personality in a way and you're almost experiencing a sort of imposter syndrome |
| 0:06.0 | where you feel like the focal point or one of the focal points of your life of your history of your your narrative, that it might be a lie. |
| 0:15.1 | And I wonder if that imposter syndrome thing kind of sits with you because I think |
| 0:19.3 | there are a lot of people that feel that way. Like it's they're gonna come to |
| 0:22.4 | this realization that it's all |
| 0:23.4 | been a big lie and all this pain has been for nothing that it's been blown |
| 0:26.5 | out of proportion or you made it up or something like that. Hey everybody |
| 0:29.7 | before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:33.1 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:37.3 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:39.6 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and |
| 0:45.0 | recognize your limitations. |
| 0:46.9 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:48.6 | 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. |
| 0:55.7 | If you need to skip, that's okay. |
| 0:57.0 | But you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:59.7 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:04.4 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:08.3 | substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the |
| 1:12.2 | show. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show All right. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Health Podcast episode |
| 1:34.5 | 287. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health |
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