Episode 294: Spouse Doesn't Want Help & Depressed About the World
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hey, everyone. I hope you're taking great care of yourselves. In this episode, I start with a moment of vulnerability about my life lately. That is followed by these two great questions sent in by listeners like yourself:
- My wife has had anxiety for years but does not want to get help for it. What can I do?
- I have a perfect life, but I remain depressed about the world. How can I cope?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode294
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| 0:00.0 | So she may or may not feel as though she has a significant anxiety issue. |
| 0:05.0 | And the thing is she's allowed to have anxiety, right? |
| 0:07.5 | There's no law that says somebody isn't allowed to have a chronic anxiety disorder and struggle with it. |
| 0:15.6 | And it's at a certain level her choice what she wants to do with herself. At the same time you are also allowed to be concerned, so both of those |
| 0:20.8 | things can coexist. Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:26.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general |
| 0:31.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously |
| 0:34.5 | encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult content but also respect and |
| 0:38.7 | 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, |
| 0:46.0 | 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 |
| 0:54.9 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be |
| 0:59.6 | direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:04.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all. All Right. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties. |
| 1:25.0 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 294. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:32.0 | I make mental health content for real people just like that. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:32.6 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:35.6 | And today I have a question-answer episode. |
| 1:38.7 | Recording this actually in the morning, |
| 1:41.2 | it's a late release episode. I want to talk with you guys a little bit beforehand |
| 1:46.0 | just to share some of my experience. I know not everybody enjoys hearing the personal stuff. |
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