Episode 87: Surviving Disasters
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hey, friends. I'm not sure if you saw the news, but southern California is on fire. I'm safe, but a lot of friends and acquaintances are not. I'm in this eerie spot where we are very close to the fires, but at very low risk, so "normal" life continues on. Decided to do an episode with some of my tips for getting through disasters like this including:
- Understanding stress vs anxiety
- Prepping to avoid freezing
- Mental rehearsal
- Importance of rest
- Focusing on what you DO have control over
- Mindfulness in disaster situations
- Finding comfort in the small moments
- Keeping routine where you can
- Talking about event without re-traumatizing
- Processing your feelings
- Getting help
- Managing social media consumption
Not sure what format next week's episode will be, but please feel free to keep sending your questions over to duffthepsych@gmail.com and be sure to check out the info for my upcoming course at duffthepsych.com/course
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:04.0 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:08.2 | and some of those could be sensitive for you. |
| 0:10.4 | I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in consuming difficult content, but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:17.0 | 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 |
| 0:24.5 | check out the episode and just see what happens if you need to skip that's okay |
| 0:27.6 | but you know feel free to give it a shot first I also need to say that while I am a |
| 0:32.0 | psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 0:35.0 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 0:40.0 | So with those said let's go ahead and get to the hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:03.9 | Podcast episode 87. I'm your host Dr Robert Duff a psychologist from |
| 1:08.7 | Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Health Help book series. |
| 1:13.0 | And before we get into the show, |
| 1:14.5 | just a couple things I want to mention. |
| 1:16.7 | You know, I am the author of that Hardcore Health Help |
| 1:19.0 | series, but I got a couple other things coming down |
| 1:21.0 | the pipeline as well. I'm still plugging away at the |
| 1:23.7 | course. I'm working on my online course which is called kick anxiety's ass. You can |
| 1:27.8 | find information about it at duff the psych.com slash course. It's going to be a |
| 1:31.7 | 10-week course very heavily video-based so it's mostly me |
| 1:36.7 | giving lessons to you through video but there will also be written content you |
| 1:42.0 | know worksheets things of that sort. |
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