I think that you're starting your day every day with your battery already depleted, which is why it's so easy for you to lose your temper or become overwhelmed.

You don't have much wiggle room there and you're hitting that threshold for what you can take very quickly because it's already starting off so depleted.

So you deserve to have some things that are just for you to help you recharge those batteries.

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 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 go ahead and get into the show. All right.

Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 360. 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 have a question and answer episode. Two awesome questions

from listeners like yourselves. Thank you to everybody who did kind of answer my

call for more questions. I got a bunch of them in. Two of these are newer ones since I asked for more questions. I got a bunch of them in. Two of these are newer ones since I

asked for more questions, so I really appreciate you guys and keep sending them in. I

love having a variety of questions about everything, life, mental health, specific disorders, treatments, sexuality,

relationships, school, anything like that. If you want to send me a question for the

show, send me an email to duff the psych at to email.com or use a contact form on duff the

psych. If you're out there in one of those areas that's extremely hot right now. I hope that you're staying safe and taking good care of yourselves. I've seen, you know, obviously wildfires going on and then just horrendous things

related to the heat, like, uh, people falling while they're on walks and just getting burned by the pavement, people's trash cans, and even like indestructible balls for their dog melting in the sunshine because it's 116 plus degrees.

It's wild. So hopefully you are taking it seriously, you know, obviously hydrating using sunblock,

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