Episode 336: Ghosted by Children & Grieving in Secret
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hey, friends! I hope that you are doing well. For this episode, we are back to the usual Q&A format with a ltitle less intensity than last episode. Here is what I cover:
- What can I do about my adult children that have completely ghosted me?
- How can I tell me partner that I'm still grieving my ex that died?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode336.
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| 0:00.0 | for you've had to hide aspects of your grief and maybe even feel ashamed of it to some degree. |
| 0:06.3 | And so therefore the grief has had to fit itself into the confines of your life, |
| 0:10.5 | you've had to kind of fit it into this convenient neat little box. Instead, it seems like maybe you would have benefited and maybe will still benefit from following the lead of your grief and just letting it take you where it might because that's kind of how it has to work. |
| 0:23.3 | Hey everybody before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:27.2 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general and |
| 0:31.6 | some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:33.2 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave and consuming difficult |
| 0:37.4 | content but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:40.6 | 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 |
| 0:55.3 | a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist this is not |
| 0:59.6 | intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:04.7 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:27.5 | Podcast episode 336. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the psych. |
| 1:32.4 | I make mental health content for real people just like you, and today we are back to the normal question and answer format. |
| 1:39.0 | I thank you guys very, very much for the feedback and thoughts and a lot of you shared your own |
| 1:45.4 | experiences and such with me following the previous episode which was our more |
| 1:50.0 | you know serious episode this episode is not going to be the same as that. I have two |
| 1:54.4 | really good questions from you know listeners like yourselves but the topic isn't |
| 1:58.3 | going to be as potentially triggering I don't think. We are going to talk a bit |
| 2:02.1 | about grief, a bit about loss and |
| 2:04.8 | relationships and such but you know definitely a departure from the vibe last week I did |
| 2:11.2 | want to say I have been sending out emails for each of my podcast |
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