Episode 331: Recovering From Brain Injury & How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all! In this episode, I answer the following questions from awesome listeners like yourself:
- How can I recover my memory following a trumatic brain injury?
- How can I stop making myself anxious and depressed by comparing myself to other people?
Don't forget to take a look at my new book of questions including the following one that I include in the episode: What things were and were not talked about in your family of origin?
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| 0:00.0 | And so in this way you're not being artificially positive, you're just balancing the scales. |
| 0:04.0 | You're just getting yourself to be a little bit more realistic by not ignoring these things that actually do point to the fact that you're a worthwhile person. |
| 0:11.9 | Or you're a neutral person, whatever, you're just worthwhile person. Or you're a neutral person, whatever. |
| 0:13.4 | You're just not trash. |
| 0:14.9 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, |
| 0:16.7 | I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:18.8 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics |
| 0:20.8 | related to mental health and life in general and some of those could be |
| 0:23.9 | sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult |
| 0:28.8 | 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, |
| 0:38.0 | 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 |
| 0:43.5 | free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not |
| 0:47.9 | your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not intended to be direct |
| 0:52.0 | medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:56.0 | So with those said, let's great. All right. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:18.5 | Podcast episode 331. |
| 1:20.5 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I'm making mental health |
| 1:24.4 | content for real people just like you. And today we have a question and |
| 1:28.8 | answer episode with two really good questioner questioner. |
| 1:32.0 | Questioner. Oh, it's starting already. |
| 1:34.0 | Two really good questions from listeners like yourselves. |
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