For me it's the other medical providers. You know, I still hear therapists to this day be like, oh God, never, I can never have somebody do that.

It's terrible and there are all these fears that are propagated in misinformation that I think really is a disservice to the community.

Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers.

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. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave

in consuming difficult 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, 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 a psychologist,

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.

So with those said, let's good. All right, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help

Podcast episode 346. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff

aka Duff the psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and

today I am doing a question and answer. I'm just gonna do question today. I just got back from like a little bit of a sort of a mini vacation just with the holidays. Funny enough I did a Passover celebration and an Easter celebration despite being very agnostic, if not

atheist.

So that was a lot of religious culture to take in and participate in, but it was good to, you know, get away from the house and see

lots of different family and just give myself permission to not work for a while.

So as I am reintegrating into the real

world figured I'd take it easy and just do one question this week. Really good question

here though we'll be able to get in depth into some information. If you would like to submit a question for the show,

please send me an email to duff the psych at gmail.com. It's the best way to do so. The

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