Episode 316: Frustrated Therapist & Codependency
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Great episode for you today featuring questions that are follow-ups on previous questions. Here's what I cover:
- My therapist seems to get frustrated and angry when I'm suicidal. What can I do about this?
- How can I maintain my self-concept in relationships?
As always, you can send me questions for future episodes to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes at http://duffthepsych.com/episode316
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| 0:00.0 | even the inflection, right? So if I said, well, what's stopping you from just jumping out that window? |
| 0:04.8 | Versus, well, what's stopping you then? What is stopping you from jumping out that window right now? |
| 0:11.4 | Right? Almost the same exact sentence, but those two inflections have a very different feel to it. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 and consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:34.7 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:36.3 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free |
| 0:40.6 | to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:43.4 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:47.4 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:55.6 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:18.1 | All right, hello friends of all varieties. |
| 1:20.2 | This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 316. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:26.0 | I make mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:30.0 | And today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:32.0 | This one's interesting because two questions that are And today I have a question and answer episode. |
| 1:32.6 | This one's interesting because two questions |
| 1:34.8 | that are basically follow-ups to previous questions. |
| 1:37.7 | So one person following up to a question |
| 1:40.0 | they had written in previously, |
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