Episode 300: How to Ask for Help & Emotional Literacy for Men
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone!
Episode 300!! Holy moly. Thank you so much for sticking with me on this ride. I appreciate your trust and attention so very much. This episode is much like any other. A solid question and answer featuring the following:
- How can I ask for help as an 18-year-old guy?
- My relationship failed due to my inability to communicate my feelings. How can I improve?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and you can find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode300
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's important for you to remember that your own experience, your own subjective, |
| 0:04.5 | internal feelings matter a whole lot. And that's something that's often ignored. You know, it's not just |
| 0:11.1 | how much it's impacting your life, but also how much it sucks for you. |
| 0:15.0 | You know, if you're really not feeling good, that matters. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:21.0 | 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 |
| 0:34.1 | limitations so please use your best judgment I will never be offended if you need to |
| 0:38.6 | skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:44.3 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:48.2 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:53.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:58.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:19.0 | Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:22.2 | Podcast episode 300 |
| 1:26.0 | holy shit 300 that's a lot of episodes I'm your host Dr Robert Duff |
| 1:32.3 | aka duff the. I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:37.0 | And today I have a normal question and answer episode. I had thrown out the idea of doing some kind of feedback from people |
| 1:45.4 | about questions they had asked on the show previously, but as usual I waited way too long to do that |
| 1:50.8 | and didn't plan well enough for episode. |
| 1:53.0 | So we're just doing a normal episode. |
| 1:55.0 | Why the hell not? |
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