The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett

Emotional health depends on making accurate and purposeful distinctions between things of different natures, even when we might not be inclined to want to do so. Distinguishing between things we do, and who and what we are, as well as being ready to do this for others. Many things in life are devoid of value, but this is never true for people themselves. Was Bob Saget funny? Distinguishing things...

Two categories to divide problems and solutions into: Tangible/Physical and Intangible/Emotional. (Intangible/Spiritual is another, but not discussed in this episode.) The natures (plural) of DEPRESSION. Predetermined conclusions and AUTISM. Not confusing symptoms as problems. A proper perspective of the value of recognizing one’s own CAPACITIES. Not inappropriately assuming responsibility for thi...

The brilliance of the previous episode. The Million-Follower Formula. My experience with Covid. The Getting-Off-The-Merry-Go-Round-Technique. The benefit and beauty of maintaining friendships with an emotionally-unhealthy person or two. The Mindful-Feeling Trick. You can't fail at practice. The Emotional Health Teeter-Totter. The Peekskill Meteor. Acceptance as a QUALITY. Struggle, and a discussio...

Which one more powerfully controls our world? Feelings or Intellect? Feelings will completely betray and negate intellect every opportunity they get, and they're doing it more than anybody would care to admit. My experience as a professional interpreter and the sad truth it teaches us about people in ALL professions. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise. The color of your car. Scientists getting Cause...

No matter what scientists, intellectuals, therapists, psychologists, or any otherwise brilliant people claim, your feelings do not in any way function any differently whatsoever from any other person's feelings. It's a myth, it's a lie, it's a reflection of dumbness, an inability, and an unwillingness to THINK. There is no such thing as people with 'less stable' feelings. Also, the big blunder I m...

The wacky Shame Boomerang and how it works. Acceptance equals relief. The formula for progress in emotional health is counterintuitive to everything else. The Fear You Won't Fall acoustic cover.    ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com     The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course:  Greatly superior t...

Love is To Die Dreaming - Morir Soñando. In what sense? Distinguishing Feelings from Acts from Qualities. The reason I can't be held accountable for feeling cold outside. Is Empathy a Feeling or is it an Act? Motives are an important ingredient in emotional health. The way honey is made. Rotating shirts. ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community:...

Special Episode: The woman who keeps slapping apples away. Love is not the answer. Yes, this flies in the face of everything society and the world tells you, but it is true. In situations that fundamentally define the ills of the world, more love is NOT the answer. In this episode I explain exactly why, and exactly what the real answer is. The horrors in Uvalde, Texas.  ----more---- The Last Sympt...

Finding weak spots in otherwise seemingly-strong things - what's the benefit? I'm staying the same age for another year. Trees are wonderful and you should stop cutting them down and plant more. Methuselah was not a girl. The woman who completely trusts her husband, and the reason why. The man who hit another man in the head with a brick, and how I could never do that. Or could I? Could you?  ----...

Many of us grow up being led to believe that nothing is more important than family. But is this true? Memories of my ex father-in-law, Ray. Generation Loss and New Healthy-Generation Fidelity. Socrates and the Allegory of the Cave - will you become a 'Philosopher King'? The healthier you get, the more you accept terrible things.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last...

People who get angry when I tell them that their lifelong, unhealthy emotional disorders are curable, and why. The real injustices committed by the professional community as a group. My credentials against the professional community's credentials, any day. Rocky and the poison hotdogs. The true story of Mama dog under the house, and the life lessons it has taught me.  ----more---- The Last Symptom...

The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, things we can learn. Follow up to Will Smith. Does God's opinions reflect realities about us?  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com     The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course:  Greatly superior to programs like DBT. Pre-recorded. Works with your schedule.   T...

Acceptance at the Piggly Wiggly and everywhere else. How The Law of Individual Inherent Rights Responsibility & Authority and Acceptance go hand in hand. Really perceiving people as people, rather than as possessions. Planting seeds by asking questions. Being content within our own circles in the sand. Laying things out for those who might want it. Ongoing censorship.  ----more---- The Last Sympto...

The two different types of observing a person, constructive and non-constructive. The benefits of observing the unhealthy world and learning from the pains they suffer. Unhappy people pretending to be happy. The enablers of Hollywood. Actor Will Smith and the two distinct groups of people his actions at the Oscars have made evident. A real-life look at Cognitive Dissonance. The only apologies that...

The Last Symptom podcast S4 Ep 29: The Blind-Faith AMNESIA Effect. Life's Most-Important WORDS. Michael Crichton. The Last Symptom Watch Party. Appalachia, and an intimate look inside. Prejudice. Stereotypes. My list of most important words to ruminate over reg-yoo-lar-lar-lee to have the upper hand on life. ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals commun...

Healthy perspectives for interacting with our children. What interpretation will you choose? Personal real-life details of interactions with my own daughter. We're playing the long game, here. Two words that communicate more than you probably think. The first day of spring training for Major League Baseball: You're more important. Why do mirrored images reflect emotional unhealth? Mark's mom has a...

You can get off the Merry-Go-Round of Shame any time you want and choose to get on the Merry-Go-Round of Positivity. In this episode, I tell you how. Also, when is a 'lie' not a lie? A discussion about freedom and slavery - you may never look at the two concepts the same way ever again. Boundaries in everyday life.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Local...

Don't fall for the temptation to complicate. Instead, make it your habit to simplify, simplify, simplify! Also, the haters and my feelings about that.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com     The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course:  Greatly superior to programs like DBT. Pre-recorded. Works with...

I know what's at the root of your anxiety and stress if you live with any emotional disorder such as Borderline Personality Disorder (Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder) either knowingly or unknowingly. I share it with you here.    #stress #anxiety #inherentworth #emptiness #value #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #authenticrecovery #the...

Special first-ever Guest Host, Shamala Del Rosario! Another REAL Person, REALLY CURED.    #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #authenticrecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett #emotionaldisorders #emotionalhealth #mentalhealth #mentalillness ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsympt...

The only path to eliminating your sense of emptiness. Maybe the most important episode to date. Everything we talk about comes down to this. Former Miss USA, Former Miss South Carolina, Beauty Pageants. Women and age.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com     The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course...

The Professional Community is utterly incompetent and is actively obstructing any chance you have at authentic and permanent recovery in practically everything they do. Shakanohey, Land of Blue Smoke. The Great Smoky Mountains. A recent experience with denial. Your phone: Are you ashamed of being a normal person? The Practical Woodsman YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-E33bx...

Principles outweigh 'moral justification'. Fahrenheit 451. The unhealthy ideologies that give rise to censorship. House fires & responsibility. Why others frustrate you and how to liberate yourself. Distancing yourself emotionally when you can't do so physically. ENDURANCE! Campfire Stories: Jordan & the Epic Blizzard.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom L...

Not too many things are black & white, not even the universe or concepts of good and bad.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com     The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course:  Greatly superior to programs like DBT. Pre-recorded. Works with your schedule.   The Last Symptom Rumble Channel   The Last S...

Unhealthy people and their weird, intense obsessions with relationships, as if there is nothing more important in life. (Many things are more important.) Girlfriends, smoking, and the inevitable effects thirty years in the future. Poetry: Byzantium I Come Not From, by Ray Bradbury.  ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com   The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals...