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. All right. Welcome, friends of all varieties.

This is the Hardcore Self-Help

podcast episode 94. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from

Southern California and the author of the

Hardcore Self-Help Book Series and sorry for the hesitation there I'm

counting ahead because I'm recording this intro early. I'm about to do episode

92 but I'm recording ahead a few episodes because today I'm doing

something a little bit different.

Last week was Dr. Baker on the podcast answering your questions and this week is going to be a mini episode. So I'm still off on my

paternity leave, taking a little bit of time off and I am doing basically just one question today

instead of a three question Q&A like I normally do for these episodes.

If you're just encountering the show for the first time, typically my format is that I take three questions from you guys and answer them.

On other weeks I do like deep dive episodes

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