Episode 315: How to Feel Less Numb & Letting Go of Old Therapist
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends. I hope you're taking good care of yourselves. Here are the questions that I cover in this episode:
- I can't feel emotions. How can I start feeling things?
- I keep in touch with my old therapist still. Is that holding me back?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode315
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| 0:00.0 | you may not be giving yourself the space and time for feelings to catch up. |
| 0:04.6 | This can be intentional or subconscious. |
| 0:06.6 | Sometimes a bit of both, right? But you might not really like sitting and being quiet and still |
| 0:12.2 | and letting those thoughts come to you. |
| 0:13.7 | So instead you just work work work or you know you keep busy you do what you do and those things |
| 0:19.0 | can never catch up as long as you're as long as you keep moving. |
| 0:21.3 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:25.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:30.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:32.0 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave |
| 0:34.4 | in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your |
| 0:40.0 | best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an |
| 0:43.6 | episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the episode and just see what |
| 0:47.8 | happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot |
| 0:50.9 | first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your |
| 0:54.9 | psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:00.7 | substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the home. All right. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health Podcast episode 315. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm yours, Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:30.0 | I make mental health content for real people just like you and today I have a |
| 1:35.0 | question and answer episode to very interesting questions from listeners like |
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