You can be pissed at somebody and still want to jump their bones.

You can love somebody dearly with your entire heart,

but just want them to leave you alone and not touch you.

I think arousal itself is not as just unidimensional, you know, one dimensional as we're led to believe.

Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.

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.

I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also 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 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 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. I'm going to be All right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 329.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health

content for real people just like you. And today I have a question and

answer episode. Two really interesting questions, stuff that I haven't

covered yet on the show so I'm really excited to get into those. If you want to

send me a question for a future episode of the show, please send me an email to

duff the psych at gmail.com or you can go to my

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