Episode 310: Genetic Testing for Antidepressants & Hating Sex in Marriage
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! This is a really interesting mix of questions. So stick around until the second one to hear me dish out some tough love.
Here are the questions covered:
- Are we able to do genetic testing to tell which antidepressants will work for an individual?
- I hate having sex with my husband. 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/episode310
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| 0:00.0 | But as I said, that's not giving either of yourselves enough credit. |
| 0:02.4 | And if your marriage is going to crumble over you being authentic about your real challenges, |
| 0:07.0 | that's a problem. |
| 0:08.1 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:11.8 | 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. |
| 0:18.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:26.0 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:27.6 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel |
| 0:31.8 | free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:34.8 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but, you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:38.8 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical |
| 0:45.8 | advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with those |
| 0:50.0 | said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:12.0 | Podcast episode 310. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, |
| 1:15.5 | aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people, just like you, and today I have a question |
| 1:20.8 | and answer episode. |
| 1:22.5 | Two really interesting questions, very different questions |
| 1:25.4 | between the two of them, but I'm excited to get to them. |
| 1:28.4 | If you want to send me a question to the show, |
| 1:30.3 | please do so by shooting me an email to duff the psych at jama.com or going to duff the psych |
| 1:36.1 | dot com my website and using the contact form there either one works and of course if you |
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