Episode 303: Decreased Sexual Performance & Trouble with Exposure Work
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! Straight forward Q&A this week with the following awesome listener questions:
- I used to be able to have sex numerous times consecutively, but ever since a panic attack, I havet been unable to. What is going on?
- I am having trouble doing my therapist's exposure activities due to panic attacks. How can I do better?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode303
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| 0:00.0 | You sort of get caught between regrets from the past and fears for the future and that's definitely happening right here, right? |
| 0:07.2 | You've had issues in the past that you're concerned about, you fear that they're going to happen again, |
| 0:11.5 | and so you get squeezed out of the present moment and so you might need to |
| 0:15.6 | Purposefully bring yourself back into that present moment to you know help yourself enjoy more and see what can happen here. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:27.0 | 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 |
| 0:38.4 | and 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 varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcasts, episode 303. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm your host, Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:32.0 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:34.6 | Today I have a question and answer episode, as it has been the case recently. I'm sure I'll do another deep dive or have my wife on or something like that, |
| 1:42.3 | sometime, but yeah yeah question and answer otherwise |
| 1:45.2 | two really good questions today I think they're gonna be very interesting to |
| 1:49.4 | listen to if you have a question you'd like to send into the show please please shoot me an email to duff the psych at gmail.com. |
| 1:56.0 | That's how you can get to me and I will read your question and consider it for a future episode. |
| 2:00.0 | I hope that you guys are having a good day right now as I'm recording this it's |
| 2:04.3 | about almost 2 o'clock 2 p.m it is like sunny and 75 with a light breeze and totally |
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