All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning.

This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid

to use some colorful language.

We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that.

Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so

please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help.

Also, please don't try to sue me.

Thank you. All Right, what is up, ladies, gentlemen, and friends of all varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self Health Podcast episode 70.

I'm your host, Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the

Hardcore Self Health Book Series. And this is going to be a Q&A episode just like usual

If you're new to the show that means I'm taking three questions that were submitted to me by

listeners like you you could submit questions to Duff the Psych at gmail.com and I got three really cool questions here but I wanted to give you just a couple little updates before that.

I recently just did a blog post and video about suicide. There's

been a lot of talk recently about suicide due to you know high profile musicians

killing themselves and other things in the media a lot of

personal experiences that I've seen with suicide recently so I thought it would be

helpful for me to share a chapter from my book on depression in which I talk about

suicide. It's a chapter all about suicide, literally called a chapter about

suicide. And the whole point of it is to just bring it out into the open and

talk about it rather than

trying to be hush-hush and be afraid of talking about it because I think that

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