Episode 326: Reducing Alcohol Use & Clutching to a Dying Relationship
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hello, beautiful people. This is another Q&A episode of the podcast featuring the following questions:
- How do I know when I enjoy alcohol too much?
- Why did I push so hard to keep a relationship that wasn't good for me?
As always, you can send me your questions for the show to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode326
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| 0:00.0 | Obviously I don't know either of you but to be honest he sounds like a lot of people that are out there in the dating pool that basically use open relationships or other forms of non-monogamy as an excuse to just be a fuck boy without regard for other people's feelings and that's gross. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:19.7 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:24.4 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:26.5 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also |
| 0:31.2 | respect and recognize your limitations. So please use your best |
| 0:34.7 | judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely |
| 0:38.7 | but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip that's |
| 0:43.4 | okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:48.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:57.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. I'm going to be free. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:19.7 | Podcast episode 326. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental |
| 1:25.4 | health content for real people just like you. And today I have a question and |
| 1:29.5 | answer episode. I have two really good questions here nothing too extremely well as far as I can tell |
| 1:36.0 | extremely triggering in the content should be pretty safe for most people but two |
| 1:41.5 | really good questions if you want to send me a |
| 1:43.9 | question to the show please shoot me an email to duff the psych at email.com or you can use |
| 1:49.5 | the contact forum on my website, DevtheSike. |
| 1:52.7 | And that website is also a great place to use the search bar and look around for other |
| 1:57.5 | content that I've made, whether that be blog post, podcast episodes, etc. |
| 2:01.7 | So if you're looking for information on a specific topic or you want to see if your question has been covered before on the show, please do that. |
| 2:09.0 | That doesn't mean you should avoid sending a question, even if it's somewhat repetitive you know there's |
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