Episode 302: No Intimacy in Marriage & Lost in Life
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope you're doing well. After a very gross story at the top of the episode, I get into the following questions:
- What can I do about decreased intimacy in my marriage?
- I am too depressed to do anything what can I do?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode302
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| 0:00.0 | you know some of the things that you need to do but depression makes it hard for you to actually do them and then the fact that you don't do them makes you feel more depressed. |
| 0:12.0 | It's a lovely cycle and it's really hard to pull out of so I don't blame you for being in the situation. |
| 0:17.0 | 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. |
| 0:27.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:35.2 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:36.8 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel |
| 0:40.9 | free to feel it out, check out the the episode and just see what happens if you |
| 0:44.1 | need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:47.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and |
| 0:51.6 | I'm not your therapist. 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. |
| 1:18.4 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:21.5 | Podcast episode 302. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm host Dr Robert Duff, aka the Psych. |
| 1:26.0 | I make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:29.0 | And today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:32.0 | Two awesome questions from listeners like yourself. If you'd |
| 1:35.4 | like to send me in a question, please shoot me an email to Duff the Psych at Gmail.com. You can also go to my website, |
| 1:42.3 | Duff the Psych.com to search around and see if your question has been answered before and also on my website you can find all the old episodes because I know that Apple Podcasts and some of the other podcast players only carry I think the most recent 100 or something like that |
| 1:56.6 | But you can go all the way back to episode one on my website just you know type in depth the site |
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