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 95.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the Hardcore Self-Help book series.

And today we have one more sort of mini episode.

Normally I answer three of your questions per episode but today I'm just doing one

because I've prepared this episode ahead of time because I'm currently on my

paternity leave so So past couple of

episodes have been similarly different than usual and today I'm doing just one

question so we'll keep it nice and short and thank you for your patience while we're having these sort of different

episodes while I'm on my leave.

I know that you guys are used to a certain routine but you know I got to do what I got to do.

I got to take some time off and raise my new little one so it is what it is and hopefully these are you know nice little quick episodes that you're that you're enjoying and still getting something out of. If you guys do want to send in questions,

please continue to do so. I'll be going back to my normal schedule soon here for

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