Episode 43: Suicidal Thoughts, Agoraphobia, Relationship Paranoia
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Heavy hitting questions today. Love it! I'm a little sick in this episode, so please pardon any congestion etc. That said, there are some really good points in this episode, particularly in relation to the first question.
I dropped a couple links in the intro. Here they are: http://duffthepsych.com/dementia for my new book and http://duffthepsych.com/resources for all sorts of psych resources that I like.
Here are the questions covered in this episode:
- How can I bring up suicidal thoughts to my doctor?
- What can I do about my agoraphobia?
- How can I stop being paranoid in my relationship?
As always please send me your questions (and share the show). You can reach me via email at duffthepsych@gmail.com or on twitter at http://twitter.com/duffthepsych
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning. |
| 0:02.8 | This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid |
| 0:07.2 | to use some colorful language. |
| 0:09.5 | We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that. |
| 0:14.9 | Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so |
| 0:19.6 | please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:24.0 | Also, please don't try to sue me. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank you. All right, what is up, ladies, and friends of all varieties this is the hardcore self-help |
| 0:43.9 | podcast episode 43 I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from |
| 0:48.2 | Southern California and the author of the hardcore self-help book series and today is another Q&A episode where I take your |
| 0:54.8 | mental health psychology relationship etc related questions and answer them as |
| 1:00.4 | best I can without lots of psychobabbleble and confusing language. I try to keep it |
| 1:04.5 | real, keep it raw, as my friend Dan would say. And just give you the answers. I am sick today so you might hear a little bit of a |
| 1:15.6 | rasp to my voice or you might hear a little bit of congestion because I'm pretty |
| 1:20.1 | dang congestion congested. Congested? Yeah that's a good started congested. Yeah that's a good start congested. We, my wife and I both got |
| 1:26.6 | sick right after New Year's and we're not like super super sick to the point that we're not functional but just really really congested and icky so I'm going to work through it though. It's been a long day I had testing earlier today and then some therapy tonight and now I'm doing this but happy to be here. |
| 1:45.0 | I do have a couple reminders for you before we get into the questions and answers. |
| 1:51.0 | So one of them, I mentioned it a little while back on a |
| 1:54.2 | podcast but I'm not sure if I mentioned it since then. I'm writing a book |
| 1:58.1 | currently on dementia and if you're not familiar with dementia it's basically memory problems that are usually age |
| 2:04.8 | associated but sometimes can be caused by other things. |
| 2:08.5 | And I'm writing a book about that and it's in the same vein as my hardcore self-help series but a little bit |
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