Hey everybody, before we start the 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. Hello friends of all varieties this is the hardcore self-help podcast episode 83 I'm your

host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the

hardcore self-help book series and if you are a regular listener you probably notice some new things a

new little pre-episodes intro some new music stuff like that just changing things up

a little bit I was previously using some just creative comments music

meaning it's it's music that's free for use but you have to you know provide

attribution for the person and I didn't own the music I just was you know

using it based on that license which it was fine but I wanted to get something that I actually

Owned so I bought a beat from my friend

He goes by speaks geek SPE S, Geee A K, Geea K, Speaks Geek.

He's usually Speaks Geek 909 on stuff,

so he's on Sound Cloud and Band Camp and Twitter and all that good stuff. So check him out and say

thanks for the cool new beat that we start off the episode with. And you know, I abbreviated

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