Episode 328: Antidepressants Causing Self-Harm & Rock Bottom in 50s
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Hope you are enjoying some time off with loved ones or some quiet time on your own. Here are the question I cover in this episode:
- I think antidepressants are causing me to self-injure due to being numb. What should I do?
- I have hit a rock bottom in my mid 50s including divorce, losing my job, and a DUI. How do I survive?
As always, you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode328
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Life may have knocked you down, but you're not dead yet. |
| 0:02.5 | And even if you start thriving just out of spite, go for it, right? |
| 0:06.9 | Like, that's fine. If you're existing out of spite, do that. |
| 0:10.3 | Give a big fuck you to the universe that thought it could do you in. |
| 0:13.3 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:17.5 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:21.8 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:23.8 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult content but also |
| 0:28.4 | respect and recognize your limitations so please use your best judgment. I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to skip that's okay but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:44.0 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your |
| 0:48.1 | therapist. This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:54.8 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Health Help Podcast, episode |
| 1:18.3 | 328. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Deaf the Psych, I'm making mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:26.0 | And today I have a question answer episode with that two very good and very vulnerable questions from listeners like yourself. |
| 1:34.7 | If you would like to submit a question for the show, shoot me an email to Duff the site at email.com. |
| 1:40.6 | Or of course you can use the contact form on my website where you can find all the information from previous shows to |
| 1:47.8 | blog posts related to the content and shows to anything I've ever written.'s all on the website so feel free to use |
| 1:53.9 | the search bar there and you know do some exploring I do want to give you a |
| 1:58.6 | heads up about this episode both the questions they do talk about some potentially sensitive topics. |
| 2:05.5 | There's nothing you know extremely graphic here but topics like self-injury |
| 2:10.6 | suicidal ideation and such do come up. I wanted to let you know that I have a resource |
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