I know that at your age privacy is probably really important to you and you do deserve it for sure you deserve you know kind of your basic human rights and stuff

But in some cases getting issues like self-harm and depression out there in the open is really

one of the most important ways that you can start dealing with them and often for

these issues it does take more of a community approach you know family, family members, other supports to be involved and

understand what's going on to make a real difference.

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 and 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-Help Podcast episode 288. I'm your host

Dr. Robert Duff, A. 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.

Two really good questions, not quite as intense as last episode,

but some really interesting stuff.

So we're going to be talking about confidentiality for minors in therapy. And we're also going to be talking about

basically the difference between physical health issues and mental health issues so

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