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 Right.

Hello, friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast episode 92. I'm your host

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

Hardcore Self-Help book series.

If you're joining us for the first time today,

my typical outline for episodes

is I'll do three different questions

that you guys send in about mental health or life

or mental illness, anything like like that and I do my best to answer them in a clear

concise straightforward sort of way that's kind of my approach is mental health for real people trying

to not bog you down with jargon.

If there is anything that I need to say that's sort of a jargon term or something that's a

technical term, I try to define it and make it very clear for you.

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