Episode 337: Losing a Friend & Father with Brain Injury
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone. Short and sweet Q&A episode here featuring the following:
- I made a mistake and lost my friend of 20 years. What can I do about the loneliness and hopelessness I feel now?
- My husband had a brain injury when out daughter was young and now she does not want to be around him because of his behavior. What can I do?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode
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| 0:00.0 | But you know if there are truly things that you feel remorseful about and you've come to understand them and you know you have a sense of guilt because of what you've done and it's legitimate, then good. You know, that's going to help you. Unnecessary guilt is something that a lot of people |
| 0:16.1 | struggle with, but guilt can also serve a purpose when it's actually there for a reason. |
| 0:21.5 | It helps us to adjust our behavior. So that sense of guilt, you know, you don't need to |
| 0:26.1 | unnecessarily beat yourself up with it, but you need to understand it and course correct and learn from it. |
| 0:31.5 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple |
| 0:34.6 | disclaimer. |
| 0:35.6 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:40.0 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:42.2 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave |
| 0:44.7 | in consuming difficult content, |
| 0:46.4 | but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:49.4 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:51.2 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an |
| 0:53.7 | episode entirely, but feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 0:58.3 | If you need to skip, that's okay. But you know, feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 1:02.3 | I also need to say that while I am a |
| 1:03.8 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. This is not |
| 1:08.0 | intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 1:10.9 | substitute for professional help. |
| 1:13.0 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:23.0 | Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:35.3 | Podcast episode 337. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the |
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