Look, it's important that you don't abuse your children, but you're also trying to stop this from happening,

which I can really appreciate, and I'm glad that you have this self-awareness.

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, 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 go ahead and get into the show. All right.

Hello friends of all varieties. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode

369. 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-answer episode with two very

good questions from listeners like yourselves. If you would like to send me in a question for

the show I would greatly appreciate it you can send me an email to duf the psych

at gama.com or go to duf the psych dot com and use the contact form there either way

works and yeah for everybody that has written in recently, I appreciate you and I appreciate everybody who's listening.

So yeah, not too much preamble here before getting into the episode.

I did want to give you a quick update if you are

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