Episode 350: Daddy Issues & Severe Social Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello, friends! I hope you are all doing well. Special shout out to the moms out there this week! In this episode, I two awesome listener questions.
Our first question comes from a listener who has been enjoying the podcast and requests an episode focused on "daddy issues." They express curiosity about the causes and potential solutions surrounding this concept. In response to this inquiry, we will delve into the complexities of "daddy issues," examining various contributing factors and discussing potential strategies for healing and personal development.
Moving on to our second question, a long-time listener writes in for the first time, sharing their ongoing struggle with severe social anxiety. They describe how their anxiety often leads to dissociation during conversations, causing them to make impulsive decisions to end interactions prematurely. Despite trying conventional treatments such as CBT, exposure therapy, medication, and group therapy, the listener feels disheartened by the lack of progress and wonders if there are other options available. We'll explore alternative approaches and offer insights on how to navigate social anxiety in a more empowering way.
As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode350
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| 0:00.0 | And this is a way of essentially conjuring up the problematic attachment and then working through it. |
| 0:05.2 | Right? Because again, that is dead, right? You don't have a chance to go back and redo your childhood. |
| 0:10.3 | But what you do have a chance to do is pull that out of its box and reinterpret it and put it back. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey everybody, before we start the show I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:19.4 | 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. |
| 0:25.9 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content but also |
| 0:30.5 | 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 |
| 0:44.2 | free to give it a shot first. |
| 0:46.2 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist, I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:51.5 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use |
| 0:54.3 | this as a substitute for professional help. So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. I'm going to be free. All right. Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcasts |
| 1:19.7 | episode 350. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych and make mental health content for real people just like you. |
| 1:27.0 | And today I am doing a question and answer episode with two awesome questions from listeners like yourselves. |
| 1:34.0 | If you would like to send me a question for the show, |
| 1:37.0 | send me an email to duff the psych at gmail.com. |
| 1:40.0 | I am hoping that I'll be able to get through this episode well. My kid Remy has been sick for a week now and he's got this horrendous cough and fever and stuff like that. Poor kiddo. |
| 1:53.7 | Took him to the doctor finally and got him a chest x-ray and stuff like that. |
| 1:57.2 | But yeah, I don't think it's anything beyond just whatever's going around right now, |
| 2:02.0 | but he has been coughing his head off |
| 2:04.1 | actually tonight's the first night where he's not coughing constantly so hopefully |
| 2:08.7 | we're able to make it through the podcast okay poor guy though. He gets like really sort of like desperate and |
| 2:17.8 | clinky when he's like this so he'll be like, Dad, like what but what what |
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