Episode 339: Can't Find a Job With My Degree & Emotions Stuck in Therapy
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Hello, everyone! I hope that you are staying safe out there if you are in an area with wild weather conditions. I am having a very cozy weekend. This week, we have a Q&A episoed with the following:
- I spent years obtaining my degree, but I can't find a job that utilizes it. What can I do?
- I want to feel more in therapy, but I can't access the emotion. How can I move forward?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode339
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's normal to feel some envy, you know, some frustration when it feels like other people are |
| 0:06.0 | benefiting more from not trying as hard, I guess is a good way to put it. |
| 0:11.0 | But you need to remind yourself that they are allowed to experience success and that their success has nothing to do with you. |
| 0:16.3 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:20.1 | 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. |
| 0:26.5 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:34.2 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:35.9 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but feel free |
| 0:40.2 | to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. If you need to skip, that's okay, |
| 0:44.4 | but you know, feel free to give it a shot first. I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, |
| 0:49.2 | 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. |
| 0:57.0 | So with those said, let's go. it's great. All right. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:20.0 | Podcast episode 339. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm your host Dr Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental |
| 1:26.0 | health content for real people just like you. And today we have a question |
| 1:29.9 | answer episode. I have two awesome questions from listeners like |
| 1:33.7 | yourselves. If you would like to send me a question for a future episode of the show |
| 1:37.7 | send me an email to duff the psych at gmail.com or you can use the contact form on there and that does the same thing |
| 1:47.4 | comes to my email and I don't usually respond when I get an email with a question I just tag it put it in a folder and |
| 1:54.1 | then when it comes episode time I go search through that and find good questions for this particular |
| 1:57.8 | episode. |
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