But I realized that there have been moments, you know, this year where I reflected on conflicts or situations in my life where I had myself convinced that I was being just logical or reasonable and when I really dug deeper and sat on it the reality is maybe

there's an element of that but there's also a big reality of just wanting to

sort of win. Hey everybody before we start 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 go ahead and get into the show. All right. Hello friends of all varieties.

This is the Hardcore Health Health

Podcast episode 379. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make

mental health content for real people, just you and today we are doing the last

episode of the year and this is going to be sort of my wrap-up episode.

First things first I wanted to let everyone know that there won't be an episode next week.

I'm going to be, you know, taking the week off.

Well, I'm actually not.

I'm going to take the week off from the podcast.

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