The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett

Forgiveness. Letting go of resentment. Allowing somebody back into your good graces. Settling debts. Compensation. Vacuums, negative space. The Law of Enabling. Acceptance. Denial. Emotional rebellion. Five circumstances when you cannot healthfully forgive a person without consequences and conditions. The Fictional World of Shoulds. The solution to almost everything is thinking differently and jus...

One thing separating unhealthy people from healthy people is their failure to make important distinctions in everyday life, with sometimes subtle, but extremely important things - for example, when it comes to the identities we live with about ourselves. In this episode, we discuss the nature of such distinctions, and the dramatic, powerful effects the failure to make these distinctions can have o...

A really important episode. What does entropy and 'spacial disorientation' have to do with emotional health? Listen to learn more. Also, are you exploiting patterns and cycles? If not, now might be a good time to start.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community exclusively at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching for The...

What we can learn about emotional health by studying silverback gorillas and honeybees: The power of not minding, and your individual value as a person.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett.    #patience #indifference #attitude #perspectives #cari...

Humility. Sabotaging behaviors. The Participation Trophy Mentality.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett.    #humility #sabotagingbehaviors #participationtrophy #relationships #parents #children #humanworth #humanvalue #value #emotionalhealth #emo...

The only way to put things right, or to bring things back into balance. Also, what makes a perfect parent?    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett.    #balance #recompense #makeamends #parents #children #abuse #harm #qualifications #conditio...

Part 2 of 2. The previous episode ended with Jay telling about the overdose death of his identical twin brother on fentanyl. In this episode we dive deeper into a discussion about feelings, family, cause & effect, enabling, and more. Some irreverent humor, and a technical glitch that allowed my daughter's online 2nd grade class to hear a lot of stuff they shouldn't have heard.   http://www.thelast...

A very frank discussion with my cousin Jay. The chaotic childhood he had, his experiences with divorce, drugs, death, jail, the law, and particularly the overdose death of his identical twin brother, Jarod. Part 1 of 2.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Bria...

Happiness, empathy, love and other good things fail to happen because they are obstructed. Lessons from John Muir - nobody knows a thing as intimately and fully as those who have lived it. Abusive people do not want to know things about you out of genuine interest in you. Facts and implications - one isn't as valuable without the other.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community...

We all have many multiple versions of ourselves within us. All of them younger. How do we deal with all those versions of ourselves? The healthy among us do it well, the unhealthy do it poorly. But we can all do it healthfully, so what are we waiting for? Let's do a follow up discussion to Gabby Petito and Brian Laundry. Also, the most important thing you should always keep in mind about all peopl...

How long did it take me personally to go from believing I had no inherent value to believing I have inherent value? The Observer Effect and what you should know about it in your recovery. Women worry unnecessarily about things. My dog Tipi.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The...

The Narrative - what it is, why it exists, how it behaves. A figurative bowl of cereal. Needs are different than wants. How we feel about people does not determine their goodness.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett.    #family #lying #narratives...

Are you depressed or feeling down this time of year (holiday season)? Let's talk about that. While we're at it, let's talk about how you can tell you're not really happy even when you believe you are. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by. Brian Barnett. #depression...

Announcing weekly livestreams, exclusively for The Last Symptom Locals community. Relationships, Empathy, Intimacy, Love! How about this absurd obsession with relationships by people who can't even tolerate their own selves?? What will a romantic, committed relationship be like between a person with an emotional disorder and a healthy person? You might as well be asking what would happen if a pers...

When to never make decisions. Charles Hew Crooks and the airplane. Looking back and wishing you had known things sooner, while understandable, is not constructive. Things played out exactly as they have had to play out for you to get better. What makes a good parent. Poem: They Are Everywhere. Also, I teach you a trick for cracking eggs.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community...

Streamed live with participation on YouTube and Locals. Prioritizing responsibility to self. Major League Baseball World Series, Phillies & Astros. Humiliated for what you feel. Unhealthy people analyze experiences they have, not the feelings they experience. Doing anything to avoid humiliation. Calm-Assertive Communication-Behavior style is not rude. No inherent judgment in statements of observat...

I don't legitimize purposeful, willful, disingenuous denial by engaging in debate with folks who are trapped in this type of mindset, and neither should anybody else. It would fix the problem pretty quickly.    Go Phillies!   http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by B...

"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." Are you sure you just don't hear the music? Fun and regret raking leaves. Mind your own business: Acceptance. Assuming rights, responsibility, and authority that do not belong to you at all. The failure to see where your place is, and of being content to stay in your place. Regular upcoming livestreams. Laying down seed for birds and squirrels....

You try and try, but you never seem to get closer to your objective. What is this undeniable proof of? Paying attention to subtleties are really, really important. It is impossible to generate true motivation for any effort you secretly perceive is pointless. What do you have to do if you perceive an objective as impossible? Logical fallacies. Never, ever view people as hopeless, or as 'lost cause...

A continued discussion about how to talk to those who aren't willing to distinguish between subjective and non-subjective things. What you can learn from "It's not my fault!" Does being a good person get you used? Story about Jordan's brother. A deeper conversation about when a 'lie' is not a lie.   http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download...

I hope you enjoy the discussions in the show about getting in our own way, self-sabotage, why the most people’s attention on a thing is so valuable, my political views (they may surprise you!), how to handle conversations when you begin to realize that you are becoming extremely frustrated or bothered, veal sandwiches, and more! http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelasts...

Seeing people as people, as individuals, for real. All it necessitates and implies.    http://www.thelastsymptom.com   Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett.    #individual #person #unique #unhealthy #perceptions #emotionaldisorders #emotionalhealth #cure #completerecovery #thelasts...

HALF A MILLION DOWNLOADS! I hope everybody is doing well, it's good to be back for this new fifth season. I thought I would start it off with some controversy that is sure to upset a lot of people who don't take the time to see why I'm right: "Low" self-worth, "low" self-esteem are not real things. They do not exist. ALSO: An opportunity to take The Last Symptom Fundamentals Course for FREE.    ht...

Some very personal, and personable stuff. Distinguishing between getting an opinion, and getting information from somebody who has knowledge and recognition of a non-subjective reality. The emotional effect of finally being heard. Why it's ok for you to get nervous when you talk to me for the first time. My star-struck experience with a woodcraft survival guy. Intimate memories of Jordan and Dave....