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, gentlemen, and Friends of All Varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 75.

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

Self-Help book series.

Welcome, this is going to be another question answer episode.

You can send me your questions about mental health or life or relationships or school

or psychology, really whatever you want to.

You can send me your questions to Duff the Psych at gmail.com,

and I'm going to pick three of them today to go through and give my best shot at answering.

Before that, I just have a couple things I wanted to bring up. One is last

episode I mentioned the Facebook group, the private hardcore self-help

community Facebook group. Man it's going great. We're up to 200 members now and

it's been amazing. The engagement on there is really fantastic. People sharing their goals, asking for advice, putting fun pictures of their pets up, you know, sharing moments that were difficult for them,

asking for advice with that, or, you know, things that help them out, all kinds of different stuff, really.

And it's been a place where people feel comfortable sharing. There's been, you know, I think it's been a place where people feel comfortable sharing there's been you know I think it's just really

welcoming community there have been some cases where people you know post something take it down because they felt

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