Episode 308: Anger After Suicide & Restarting Medication
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all. A big content warning for this episode, the first question deals with suicide and has a bit more detail than other questions I've answered on the show. It's a very worthwhile question and a great topic to discuss, but I just want to make you aware of that.
Here are the topics covered in this Q&A episode:
- I saw my elderly father kill himself and I am so angry at him. What can I do?
- My friend stopped medication for anxiety and depression, but she is thinking about starting again. What else can she do to help herself out?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes to this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode308.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think there is something very special about grief, something that can be very healing. |
| 0:04.0 | It helps you move through the experience of losing somebody as an individual and as a community, |
| 0:09.0 | but that doesn't necessarily require you to feel sorrow and sadness about the fact that they're gone. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:18.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general |
| 0:22.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:24.8 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize |
| 0:30.7 | your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you |
| 0:35.2 | need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the |
| 0:39.6 | episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:44.9 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:50.1 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:55.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. 3rd All Right. Hello, friends of All Varieties. This is the Hardcore Health Health |
| 1:18.5 | Podcast episode 308. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:30.0 | Two really good questions today from listeners like yourself. I do want to give a bit of a sort of content warning. |
| 1:37.0 | Obviously I have my built-in one at the beginning of the episode and the intro, but in this episode I'm going to be talking about suicide. |
| 1:47.2 | Somebody has a question about suicide |
| 1:48.8 | and it is a little bit more intense |
| 1:50.5 | than some of the other ones. |
| 1:52.3 | And so I want to just make you aware of that. I'm going to be talking about suicide and I think there is a lot of variation in the way that people use language surrounding suicide. A lot of people prefer to say, you know, |
| 2:04.7 | death by suicide always. Some people never use the word and instead say things like, |
| 2:09.0 | you know, taking one's own life, whatever the case may be. I'm just going to say the word. I'm just going to say |
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