Episode 330: Agoraphobia Exposure & Fixing a Dead Bedroom
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! Hope you are well. Back with another Q&A episode this week featuring the following questions submitted by listeners like you:
- What steps can I add to my exposure ladder for agoraphobia to stop having so many panic attacks in public?
- How can I work on the lack of sex in my marriage?
As always, you can send me questions for the show to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode330
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to encourage you just generally that having a panic attack or having a strong anxiety |
| 0:05.9 | reaction in some sort of way isn't a failure. |
| 0:10.1 | If you try to do a given exposure exercise and you end up having a panic attack like you |
| 0:13.8 | discussed, that doesn't mean you didn't do it right. |
| 0:16.7 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:20.6 | 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 in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:34.4 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:36.0 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but |
| 0:40.0 | 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. |
| 0:47.1 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:52.3 | 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. And the All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:20.5 | Podcast episode 330. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka |
| 1:24.8 | Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you. And today I |
| 1:29.6 | have a question and answer episode. As always I have two really good questions from |
| 1:33.9 | listeners like yourselves. If you'd like to send me a question for a potential future |
| 1:38.3 | episode of the show, send me an email to duff the site at you moor.com or head over to my website |
| 1:43.9 | to the site dot com use the contact form there you could do either one and yeah as |
| 1:50.0 | I said two two really good questions here I'm excited to get into them. |
| 1:52.8 | Nothing too intense in terms of imagery or trauma or things like that. |
| 1:58.6 | So nothing that I feel like I need to give you guys a heads up about. |
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