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. All varieties. This is the Hardcore Health

podcast episode 88. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from

Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Health

Help book series.

And today's going to be just a regular question and answer episode.

The fires are still going strong over here.

If you listen to the last episode, you know that I'm in California, sort of around the area that's affected by the

giant fires that are happening they're definitely still raging they're getting more

and more contained every day but it's still a pretty shitty situation and the air quality is rough around here my immediate area you know

we're doing really well considering the other places around us so the city that I live in is

doing really well but in the evenings the air

quality gets worse when the air blows it in so you know it's been a little bit

rough with that but I have absolutely nothing to complain about compared to the

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