The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett

S5 Ep 20: Goodbye, My Beloved Friend

S5 Ep 19: The Most Important Episode

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 #emotionaldisorders #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett...

S5 Ep 18: The Only Way to Put Things Right

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 #conditions #forgiveness #selfforgiveness #apology #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #mentalhealth #cure #complete...

S5 Ep 17: My Cousin Jay, Part 2

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.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.c...

S5 Ep 16: My Cousin Jay, Part 1

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 Brian Barnett. #drugs #heroin #fentanyl #marijuana #beer #children #stealing #robbery #prison #jail #brokenfa...

S5 Ep 15: Happiness is a Natural State

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 at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last S...

S5 Ep 14: You’re A Child. So Am I.

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 people... is that they are people. Those who put off the most airs of intelligence are the ones who seem ...

S5 Ep 13: The Observer Effect

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 Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #theobservereffect #observereffect #townsend #inherentworth #inherentvalu...

S5 Ep 12: Stop Lying About Your Family

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 #needs #wants #children #parents #badpeople #goodpeople #feelings #emotions #dependence #independence #emot...

S5 Ep 11: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

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 #depressed #hollidays #happy #contentment #family #relatives #rosetta #rosettastone #emotionalhealth...

S5 Ep 10: Absurd Obsession with Relationships

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 person fired lava from their eyeballs - it can't happen. Campfire story: The time Jordan let me do all t...

S5 Ep 9: Things Happened the Way They Had To Happen

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 at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last ...

S5 Ep 8: LIVESTREAM

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 observation. Hiding messages within other messages, or behind behaviors. Healthy & Unhealthy forms o...

S5 Ep 7: Purposeful, Willful, Disingenuous Denial

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 Brian Barnett. #emotionaldishonesty #purposeful #willful #disingenuous #denial #acceptance #legitimizing #de...

S5 Ep 6: Mind Yer Own Business

"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. What does it mean to look at a person as a person (a standalone individual)? Black Ankle, South Car...

S5 Ep 5: PROOF. (But of what?)

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 causes'. Work smarter not harder. Adjustments absolutely are required on the road to anywhere. http://www...

S5 Ep 4: Things You Are and Are Not Entitled To

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 the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #entitled #feel...

S5 Ep 3: Your Worst Helper

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 thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom b...

S5 Ep 2: Until I Found You

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 #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

S5 Ep 1: Low Self-Esteem Does Not Exist

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. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Loc...

S4 Ep 44: SEASON FINALE

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. Acoustic cover, Blackbird. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsympto...

S4 Ep 43: Shame & Making Distinctions

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 as opinions can help you achieve and maintain inner peace. How to hate while at the same time loving...

S4 Ep 42: Tangible & Intangible Problems & Solutions

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 things only other people are responsible for, such as their personal opinions, or the ways they feel ab...

S4 Ep 41: You Can’t Fail At Practice

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 discussion about God and Enabling. Cover songs: Daydream Believer, The Monkeys. Limón y Sal, Julieta Venegas....

S4 Ep 40: The Dark Truth About FEELINGS

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 & Effect completely backwards. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelas...

S4 Ep 39: No Matter What Scientists Say, YOUR Feelings Do NOT Function Differently

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 made recently as a parent. What it means, how I handled it. Acoustic cover: Calliope, by The Well Pen...

S4 Ep 38: The Wacky SHAME Boomerang

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 to programs like DBT. Pre-recorded. Works with your schedule. The Last Symptom Rumble Channel The Last Symptom ...

S4 Ep 37: LOVE is To Die Dreaming

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: thelastsymptom.locals.com The Last Symptom Fundamentals Structured Two-Week Course: Greatly superior ...

S4 Ep 36: More Love is NOT the Answer

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 Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsymptom.locals.com The Last ...

S4 Ep 35: Finding WEAK SPOTS in STRONG Things

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? ----more---- The Last Symptom website: thelastsymptom.com The Last Symptom Locals community: thelastsympt...