Episode 361: Health Anxiety Rabbit Holes & The Psychology of Weight Loss Drugs
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Hello, all!
In this episode, I answer the following awesome listener questions.
- I have successfully been treated for cancer, but I can't stop looking at research and personal accounts online for fear that it may come back. How can I stop?
- How do weight loss medications like Ozempic help reduce the psychological addiction to food?
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As always, you can send me questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at http://duffthepsych.com/episode361
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for that information, you might find it out there. |
| 0:03.4 | And that's that confirmation bias, right? So if I had it in my head that, oh, I must be doing something that's going to cause me cancer, |
| 0:09.0 | and I'm searching that can this cause cancer, can that cause cancer? You're going to find that information and you're not going to find all the stuff that's not put out there because it doesn't support that. |
| 0:18.8 | 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 and consuming difficult content but also respect and |
| 0:34.6 | recognize your limitations. So please use your best judgment. I will never be |
| 0:38.7 | offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely but feel free to feel it out check out the |
| 0:44.0 | episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay but you know feel |
| 0:47.4 | free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:50.8 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:54.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a |
| 0:57.9 | substitute for professional help. So with those said let's go ahead and get into the show. All right. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:22.3 | Podcast episode 361 361 I'm your |
| 1:24.8 | host Dr Robert Duff aka Duff the psych I make mental health content for real people |
| 1:29.2 | just like you and today we are doing a question and answer episode. I have two really interesting |
| 1:35.0 | questions here. If you would like to send me in a question for the show, please send me an |
| 1:39.1 | email to duff the psych at gmail.com or go to doth the psych |
| 1:43.1 | and use the contact form there. Before we get into the show proper I do have a |
| 1:48.9 | couple things to talk about a couple announcements and things like that. So first off I am a big dummy. All the |
| 1:56.6 | stuff I'm going to announce if you follow me on social media and you've been keeping up with |
| 2:00.5 | stuff this week, feel free to skip forward a little bit. |
| 2:03.3 | But I'm a big dummy. |
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