Episode 345: Bipolar Meds for Life & CBT Is Not Working
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope that you are taking good care of yourselves. We are back to the Q&A format this week with the following amazing listener questions:
- I am stable on bipolar medications, but I hate the side effects. What can I do?
- My CBT therapy just seems to worsen my mood. How can I make it more helpful?
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com
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| 0:00.0 | So if you have a disorder that is known to be treatable in the primary approach to treating it, |
| 0:04.8 | demonstrated by clinical research is medication, then it makes a lot of sense for you to take it. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:14.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:18.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:27.0 | 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 |
| 0:34.7 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 0:38.8 | free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:45.4 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for |
| 0:49.9 | professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right, hello friends of All Varieties. |
| 1:12.6 | This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast episode 345. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm yours Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm making mental health content for real people, just like you. |
| 1:22.4 | And today we are back with another question and answer |
| 1:24.4 | episode to awesome questions from listeners like yourselves. If you would like to send me a |
| 1:29.7 | question for a future episode of the show please shoot me an email to duff the site at g e-mail. The website is still in progress |
| 1:37.7 | though we are making headway my wife Joel well has been putting a lot of work into it this week and last week and yeah it |
| 1:45.1 | should be up pretty soon and it's going to look good and it's going to be |
| 1:47.3 | functional and that will be the place where you can find you know older episodes |
| 1:51.3 | show notes including transcripts for current |
| 1:53.8 | episodes blog posts based on the content of different episodes that I've done and of |
| 1:59.2 | course like the mailing list and all those sorts of goodies so it's going to be the same URL. |
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