Episode 299: Overcoming Victim Mentality & Cognitive vs Physical Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope you've had a really good week. My week here has been pretty good. As I mention in the episode, I didn't really plan anything good for the 300th episode of the show, BUT I wanted to open things up to you all. If you have written in a question or heard a question from the show that caused you to make a change in your life or there is a follow up story to your original question, I'd love to hear it. Shoot me an email to duffthepsych@gmail.com!
Anyways, here are the questions that I cover in this episode:
- Why did nobody tell me that there is mind-based and body-based anxiety?
- I have experienced a lot of mistreatment and discrimination in my life. This has led to a victim mentality. How do I get myself out of the victim mentality and start taking ownership of my life?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and you can find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode299
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| 0:00.0 | you know if you're around people that are a little bit more realistic you know you need to be |
| 0:03.3 | around annoying people that are just like oh everything's good you can manifest anything to your life |
| 0:08.1 | roses sunshine butterflies no fuck that you know but if you're around people that are more balanced in their |
| 0:14.9 | perspective and lift you up and support you, that's probably going to lead you to better outcomes. |
| 0:19.7 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:23.9 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:28.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:30.3 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:37.0 | 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 |
| 0:44.4 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:47.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:51.9 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:55.2 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:00.9 | So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. All right. All right. |
| 1:13.0 | All right. All Right. Hello Friends of All Varieties. |
| 1:23.0 | This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast, episode 299. |
| 1:26.7 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:29.6 | I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:32.7 | And today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:35.8 | You might hear me a little short of breath. |
| 1:38.7 | I have asthma. |
| 1:40.0 | I don't know if I've told you guys this before. |
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