Episode 291: Teen Suicide Contagion & Trauma Dissociation
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! Pretty heavy episode this time. Nothing graphic, as usual, but I decided to tackle some tricky questions. Before hopping into the questions, I share a quick tip about managing the news cycle during this really intense time. Here are the questions covered:
- My kid's school had two people die by suicide this year. How can I talk to them about it and should we switch schools?
- I was abused as a child and have trouble remembering it without dissociating. What can I do?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode291
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| 0:00.0 | I say this most often about you know conversations in romantic relationships but this applies here too |
| 0:06.3 | Important conversations don't have to just be one shot |
| 0:09.4 | You don't have to be perfect or address this perfectly you don't have to figure out the exact best way to say things and plan out the entire interaction beforehand. |
| 0:18.0 | 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. |
| 0:28.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your |
| 0:34.5 | limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to |
| 0:39.0 | skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the episode and just |
| 0:44.0 | see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a |
| 0:47.2 | shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your |
| 0:51.4 | psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct |
| 0:55.2 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with |
| 0:59.7 | those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:22.3 | Podcast episode 291. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, |
| 1:26.2 | aka Duff the psych. I make mental health content for real people, |
| 1:29.6 | just like you. |
| 1:31.0 | Today I have a question and answer episode. Before I get into the questions and answers, I wanted to bring up just a little strategy that might be helpful to you guys right now. |
| 1:42.0 | So at the time that I'm recording this, it is the day after, I suppose, it's kind of confusing |
| 1:50.0 | how the time works on that, but yeah, the day after Russia invaded the Ukraine and I don't know where this is going to go. You know, I don't know what exactly is going to happen from here. It's obviously unfolding sort of as I record this and it's really an interesting experience these days |
| 2:06.3 | as being in the just day and age that we're in with so much access to |
| 2:10.9 | information you know from social media to websites like |
| 2:13.8 | Reddit to, you know, live news feeds that you can find online. There are instant |
| 2:19.4 | responses to things. There are, you know, instant videos and audio clips of what's going on in the world and |
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