Episode 301: Car Crash Amnesia & Husband Suddenly Wants Divorce
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! I hope you're having a great week. Just a nice straightfoward Q&A for you today featuring the following questions:
- After 12 years of a great marriage, my husband had a sudden realization that he wants to leave. What can I do?
- My mother was in a terrible car crash and is afraid of remembering what happened. Is that a possibility?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode301
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| 0:00.0 | You know you can say that you disagree, right? That you you disagree with his reasoning like that it's not fair for him to make decisions on your behalf about the impact of his own mental health on you. |
| 0:12.0 | That's your choice, not his you know you get to decide if it's |
| 0:14.9 | too much for you. Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple |
| 0:18.7 | disclaimers. This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:24.3 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:26.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult content, but also |
| 0:31.0 | respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:35.2 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, |
| 0:40.7 | 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. |
| 0:46.4 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:51.6 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:57.0 | So with those said, let's great. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 301. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm your host Dr. Robert aka the psych I make mental health content for |
| 1:26.7 | real people just like you today I have a question-answer episode two really |
| 1:31.6 | good questions from listeners like yourself. I don't think there's |
| 1:35.4 | anything to trauma-based at least nothing that would be potentially triggering |
| 1:42.2 | for people I don't think so it should be a pretty chill episode in that regard |
| 1:47.2 | It is a beautiful day out I'm recording this kind of earlier in the afternoon so if you hear some birds chirping in the background, you may. |
| 1:56.1 | That's because I have the window open and it's gorgeous out and there are birds all around and that's life right now. |
| 2:02.3 | So if you hear birds tri bird stripping just enjoy that. It's not your imagination. |
| 2:07.1 | If you guys want to send in a question for the show you can do so by emailing me, email duff the psych at gmail.com or check out my website |
| 2:14.8 | def the psych dot com and browse around for you know questions that have been asked |
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