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HealthyGamerGG

HealthyGamerGG

By: Dr.K
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Summary
 I’m Dr. K. Harvard-trained psychiatrist, creator & owner of Healthy Gamer. Tune in for weekly updates from me about how we can improve your mental health. We cover topics ADHD, Trauma, Burntout and more. Dr. K's Guide to Mental Health: https://bit.ly/47zrIfH HG Coaching : https://bit.ly/46bIkdo HealthyGamer.GG: https://bit.ly/3ZOopgQHealthy Gamer LLC Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Sciences
Episodes
  • What TV's Worst Bosses ACTUALLY Get Right

    What TV's Worst Bosses ACTUALLY Get Right
    Nov 7 2026
    In this episode, Dr. K analyzes iconic fictional managers from TV and film to demonstrate how to navigate toxic workplace dynamics and manage difficult supervisors. He explains that highly narcissistic bosses prioritize optics and image over raw output, meaning career advancement often depends on helping your manager look good to their superiors. Dr. K details practical defensive strategies: disarming cruel workplace humor by calmly asking the boss to explain the joke, recognizing when abusive managers are trying to bait an emotional reaction to justify their own anger, and avoiding total powerlessness by setting calculated boundaries. Finally, he emphasizes that when bad bosses realize they've made a mistake, confronting them harshly will cause them to flip defensively, and ultimate immunity to workplace manipulation comes from developing deep self-awareness around your own psychological triggers. Mental health resources designed by Dr. K and made with love: https://bit.ly/3ZOopgQTalk to a HG Coach 1-on-1: https://bit.ly/46bIkdoDr. K's NEW Guide to Love, Sex, & Relationships: https://bit.ly/4dO3x0VDr. K's Guide to Mental Health: https://bit.ly/44z3SztHG Memberships : https://bit.ly/3TNoMVf Products & Services : https://bit.ly/44kz7x0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    44 mins
  • Why Your Hard Work Leads To Zero Credit

    Why Your Hard Work Leads To Zero Credit
    Nov 2 2026
    In this episode, Dr. K explains why hard work alone rarely guarantees recognition, revealing that credit is not an automatic entitlement for effort but a perception assigned by an audience based on optics and narrative. He breaks down how ambiguity in team projects allows others to steal credit, making it essential to clearly delineate individual roles and maintain a documented track record from the start. Because the first person to frame a project controls the narrative, trying to reclaim credit reactively with anger or fear of looking petty often backfires and damages your reputation. Instead, Dr. K shows how understanding cognitive biases—like how people naturally overestimate their own contributions—helps lower emotional reactivity, while actively giving public credit to teammates triggers positive reciprocity and ensures your contributions are recognized. Mental health resources designed by Dr. K and made with love: https://bit.ly/3ZOopgQTalk to a HG Coach 1-on-1: https://bit.ly/46bIkdoDr. K's NEW Guide to Love, Sex, & Relationships: https://bit.ly/4dO3x0VDr. K's Guide to Mental Health: https://bit.ly/44z3SztHG Memberships : https://bit.ly/3TNoMVf Products & Services : https://bit.ly/44kz7x0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    26 mins
  • How Much Of Your Mental Health Is Physical?

    How Much Of Your Mental Health Is Physical?
    Oct 31 2026
    In this episode, Dr. K explores why treating mental health shouldn't focus solely on the mind, explaining how leveraging simple physical habits can significantly lower the severity of psychiatric symptoms. He breaks down the bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental illness, highlighting how morning light exposure, targeted breathing practices like Nadi Shuddhi, and body-based movement like yoga or HIIT act as powerful biological levers. Rather than replacing therapy, Dr. K shows how optimizing sleep, movement, omega-3 supplementation, and brief social interactions can weaken the strength of mental illness and make long-term emotional healing far easier. Mental health resources designed by Dr. K and made with love: https://bit.ly/3ZOopgQTalk to a HG Coach 1-on-1: https://bit.ly/46bIkdoDr. K's NEW Guide to Love, Sex, & Relationships: https://bit.ly/4dO3x0VDr. K's Guide to Mental Health: https://bit.ly/44z3SztHG Memberships : https://bit.ly/3TNoMVf Products & Services : https://bit.ly/44kz7x0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    29 mins
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