Episode 381: Is it Impossible to Thrive as a Therapist & Long-Distance Driving Anxiety
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hello friends!
In today's episode, we delve into two compelling listener questions that many of you might find relatable:
Confronting Career Anxiety in Private Practice: A newly licensed listener, transitioning from a non-profit agency to private practice, shares their struggles with the unpredictability of work and income, leading to increased anxiety. They contemplate returning to a full-time job, questioning the future of their career in mental health. We discuss the common challenges faced in different work settings, strategies for managing career uncertainty, and ways to find a fulfilling path in the mental health profession.
Navigating Highway Anxiety with a Unique Twist: Another listener, who enjoys driving but experiences anxiety on long highway trips, seeks advice for their unusual situation. Despite a well-managed health condition and ruling out vision problems, this anxiety poses a significant obstacle, especially for family commitments requiring long travel. We explore potential triggers, the importance of understanding anxiety's impact, and practical tips for gradually overcoming this specific driving anxiety.
As always, your questions are the heartbeat of our show. Feel free to send your thoughts or inquiries to duffthepsych@gmail.com. For full show notes and more insights, visit http://duffthepsych.com/episode381.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody on this episode episode 381 of the podcast I take two awesome |
| 0:04.9 | listener questions that are very different from each other in the first one I |
| 0:08.7 | talked to a newly licensed therapist who made the jump to private practice |
| 0:12.0 | from community-based mental health, but they're |
| 0:14.7 | finding that the lack of stability is very difficult and they're not sure if they kind of need to lick |
| 0:19.3 | their wounds and go back to the previous setting. So I share my personal experiences with this as well as some |
| 0:25.5 | pitfalls to avoid and some creative ways to make the situation work. In the second question, as I said |
| 0:30.9 | very different, I talked to somebody about their driving anxiety. And this isn't about general driving |
| 0:36.1 | anxiety or general driving phobia. It's a very specific sort of situation. And so this was a great opportunity to dive into how to get exposure and work through anxiety for a very specific sort of trigger. |
| 0:48.0 | So I hope you enjoy. Let's go. This is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Robert Deaf. I'm a clinical psychologist and a self-help author from Southern California. My goal is to make mental health content for real people, just like you. And in this show I answer your questions or dive deep into topics related to life |
| 1:16.7 | psychology and mental health relationships and more. Please be aware that sometimes I use some |
| 1:22.3 | spicy language and I also don't shy away from sensitive topics, |
| 1:26.0 | but I will try to give you a content warning whenever it's relevant. |
| 1:29.2 | So if all this sounds good to you, let's get started. |
| 1:36.6 | All right hello friends of all varieties thank you for joining me today I hope you're doing well this has been an interesting |
| 1:42.2 | time of year from my observation. I'm noticing that a lot of people out there are having various mood episodes. |
| 1:50.0 | This could be for some depression and a lot of heaviness sort of recuperating from the holiday season so to speak |
| 1:57.9 | But I'm also noticing a huge uptick in like mania in hypomania among people that have those sort of mood |
| 2:04.7 | episodes. This is you know from my clinical perspective as well as seeing people |
| 2:10.1 | online as well as seeing people in my personal life. I'm not exactly sure the reason |
| 2:14.9 | for this. I think it may just be sort of a seasonal thing. Could also be related to sort of like I said coming |
| 2:20.8 | off the holiday season. You know there's plenty of stuff going in going |
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