Episode 97: Finding a Male Role Model, Discussing Trauma, Hydrocephalus
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
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This episode is a normal Q & A. My voice progressively died as I recorded the episode, so you get croaky Robert again. Great variety of questions this time including:
- How can I find a positive male role model for my boys since their father died?
- Should I talk about my trauma in therapy even though I haven't spoken about it for 30 years?
- Has my history of hydrocephalus affected my speed of thinking? How can I improve?
As always you can send me your questions to duffthepsych@gmail.com
Thanks!
Transcript
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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 |
| 0:24.4 | out 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 into the show. All Right. Hello, friends of allieties. Welcome to the Hardcore Self-Help |
| 1:04.5 | Podcast episode 97. I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from |
| 1:09.0 | Southern California and the author of the Hardcore South-Help book series. You guys are getting chill |
| 1:14.0 | Robert today because I'm losing my voice again. This is going to be a common |
| 1:18.8 | occurrence if you guys are new to the podcast. Every few weeks I will have gotten sick because I live with two small |
| 1:25.6 | children and I work with old people all the time and basically my life is a |
| 1:28.7 | cesspool of bacteria and crap and then I talk all day either doing testing or therapy or |
| 1:36.9 | recording podcasts and videos and stuff so my voice like gets shot sometimes so |
| 1:41.5 | currently it's almost 11 p.m. on Wednesday night and my voice is |
| 1:47.7 | starting to get a little low, little rumbly. So you get you get chill low Robert today. Today's going to be a question and |
| 1:55.5 | answer episode typically for these episodes I'll take three questions from you guys |
| 1:59.5 | to listeners you can send me a question to Duff the psych at gmail.com. It could be about anything, you know psychology, mental health, life, relationships, anything like that. I'm happy to take your questions. I don't answer all of them, but I do my best to answer as many as I can and |
| 2:15.9 | definitely send them in even if you're not totally sure because I love having just a nice |
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