Complete and permanent recovery from emotional disorders. Insights on emotional health by Brian Barnett, who authentically rid himself of Borderline Personality Disorder (EUPD) over the course of 7 years, after having lived with it, unaware, for the first thirty-five years of his life. New episodes Thursdays.
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Am I 100% emotionally healthy? Is anybody? Can you be? Why or why not? My new book - not directly related to my work with The Last Symptom - available for purchase in both paperback and Kindle: The Apple Tower: Complete Collection. I'll explain why I'm presenting it here and how this graphic comic strip work supports my work with The Last Symptom a…
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A special episode for the kids, and also for parents who are interested in my parenting style. My 9-year-old daughter, Eloise, shares some of her insights about life, relationships, feelings, and other things. https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Sto…
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Orange Slice 401: Conversations I Absolutely Will Not Have
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Taken from The Last Symptom podcast S5 Ep 7 https://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 within. Livestreams there on Mondays. #relationships #genuineness #genuine #disingenuous #intellectualhonesty #…
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S6 Ep 13 Special: How to Love Yourself for Real
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The Last Symptom website: https://www.thelastsymptom.com The Last Symptom exclusive online community: https://thelastsymptom.locals.com (Livestreams here on Mondays) YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAZlwS8utF296RgFcvgqQnA Rumble Channel: https://rumble.com/c/TheLastSymptomBy Brian Barnett
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Orange Slice 400: The Reason Denial Makes Reason Impossible
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Taken from The Last Symptom podcast S5 Ep 7. https://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 within. Livestreams there on Mondays. #innerpeace #contentment #relationships #disingenuous #denial #acceptanc…
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Orange Slice 399: Don't Waste Time on Disingenuous People
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One important way to maintain your inner peace and contentment is to not get pulled into conversations that are a big ol' pointless waste of time. Taken from The Last Symptom podcast S5 Ep 7. https://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from the App Store and searching f…
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Orange Slice 398: Legitimizing Things You Shouldn't Robs You of Peace
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Taken from The Last Symptom podcast S5 Ep 7. Orange Slices are condensed insights taken from The Last Symptom podcast that have until now only appeared on Locals, YouTube & Rumble. Starting with this episode, I will also begin publishing the audio here. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by down…
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S6 Ep 12 SPECIAL: The Origin of Your Shame
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A life lesson learned from fishing. A parenting story about make-or-break moments in time. Parenting attitudes. Allowing yourself and others to be human, and some of what that means. Why judging others is a big mistake. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com app from th…
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Trying to figure out how to 'deal' with other people is a problem. There's no difference between total strangers and people we are in relationships with. Stop reveling in sadness. Do you view life as happening 'to' you? Or do you view the majority of things in your personal life as something you are responsible for? Power over how you think. Exampl…
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S6 Ep 9: A Blueprint for Real Recovery
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I interview special guest 'Ava' in this episode, who has really set an excellent example of what authentic recovery from emotional disorders looks like, the natural way people behave when they are truly motivated and invested in getting healthy. Here, she talks about her attitude, the specifics of her efforts, the challenges she faces, how she over…
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S6 Ep 8: There's No Such Thing as a Healthy Marriage
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There's no such thing as healthy or unhealthy relationships, no such thing as healthy or unhealthy marriages, and marriage counseling is an inherent obstruction to authentic recovery that is built entirely on a lie. In this episode we talk in depth about Love, and we ask 'Why'? Why does Love behave as it does? http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our…
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An exception to always siding with your spouse. How to know if something is abuse or not. Placing importance on feelings themselves, not on whether the feelings are "right" or not. 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…
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S6 Ep 6: A Hard Thing You Must Be Willing To Do
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John & Julian Lennon. Dancing along with the unhealthy crowd. Does the risk of making people angry control you? Who gets priority: Mother or Wife? Inner peace & good health are the same thing. 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 La…
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S6 Ep 5: What Having Inherent Worth Does NOT Mean
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An important discussion about what your inherent worth does not mean. What do healthy people use to make decisions in their lives if it's not their feelings? The really simple formula for determining if something is a fair and reasonable expectation to have for others, and for self. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelast…
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S6 Ep 4: The Qualification for Viewing Your Failures Positively
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The qualification that must be met in order to view your failures positively. Every battle is won before it's fought. How to have a conversation with unhealthy people. "Nobody has a right to tell me what to do." Campfire stories. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or by downloading the Locals.com a…
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S6 Ep 3: Laws & Principles of Emotional Health
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Expanding on the topic of there not being lots of different "types" of people. Actor Will Smith & family. More about how important it is to make distinctions. A review and summary of some of the primary Laws & Principles of Emotional Health. (This is not an exhaustive list here.) What to do when people continue to test boundaries: When consequences…
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S6 Ep 2: The Law of Genuine Attitude Reflection. Dissociation.
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The Law of Genuine Attitude Reflection. Dissociation. Shaming others for differences in preferences - Why? The Behavior Panel on YouTube. Jada Pinkett Smith, the gift to the world of emotional disorder analysis that keeps on giving. The Behavior Panel episode: https://youtu.be/1VgFdHix-xI?si=jwLnOLAl3PVS97ac Join our online community at thelastsymp…
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S6 Ep 1: Never Cooperate with Unhealth
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Never cooperate with, or acquiesce, to emotional disorders and emotional unhealth and the reasons why. How to always push back against anything that is emotionally unhealthy. Real-life examples. The Calm-Assertive Communication-Behavior Style, although healthy and powerful, has a kryptonite. We discuss what it is, and how to beat it. http://www.the…
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S5 Ep 27: Season Finale. Perceptions.
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You're underestimating just how powerful perceptions are. Destroying narratives - the nature of the job and why you must do it. A season-end review of the topics we covered in Season 5. A few, brief, overdue campfire stories. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from th…
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Resentment. Black & White Thinking Vs. Black & White Realities. "Shoulds" and "Should Nots". 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 within. Exclusive livestreams every Monday. #resentment #blacka…
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S5 Ep 25 Special: When Struggle is Good, and Help is Not
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A brief, but extremely important episode. Struggle. Enabling. God. The ways that emotional health and spiritual health follow the exact same patterns. The reasons God can't help you in certain scenarios and what you may need to do first before he can act. The things discussed here do not only apply to God, but to the way we view and interact with o…
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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…
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S5 Ep 23: What We Are, What We Feel, What We Do
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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…
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S5 Ep 22: Entropy, Spacial Disorientation & You
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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…
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