The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett

The real power of accurately distinguishing between Ability (what one can or can't do) and Capacity (what one is capable or not capable of) is that it allows us to determine what is REASONABLE or UNREASONABLE in our expectations for ourselves and for others. The more you meditate over Capacity vs. Ability, the healthier your dealings toward yourself and with others will be, and the more balance and peace you will find in your life. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett #expectations #capacity #ability #reasonable #unreasonable #can #cant #healthy #unhealthy #emotionalhealth #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorder #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

There’s a quote in Dante’s Inferno that goes: “There is no greater pain than to remember the good times during the bad times.” Fortunately, the opposite is also true. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #gratitude #pain #badtimes #goodtimes #grateful #emotionalabuse #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Human beings aren't capable of choosing what and how we feel. It is something we have no direct control over, as if we could just choose to feel one thing or another in any given situation. Whatever we feel is what we feel. However, we do have control over another thing that is extremely powerful and that can help us experience feelings of gratitude naturally. Why gratitude, and what are the benefits? 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 #regulatingemotions #controllingemotions #gratitude #benefits #feelings #thoughts #thinking #control #emotionalhealth #physicalhealth #grateful #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorder #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

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 penis, and he's seen it. My reluctance to become a dad, and my relief that it happened. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #relief #penis #parenting #dads #moms #children #thelonggame #twowords #attitudes #perspectives #mlb #baseball #redsox #springtraining #mirroredimages #denial #acceptance #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #emotionalabuse #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Finding weak spots in otherwise seemingly-strong things - what's the benefit? I learned something from Michael Jackson. Methuselah was not a girl. Trees are wonderful and you should stop cutting them down and plant more. Staying the same age two years in a row. 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? http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett #weak #strong #achillesheel #trees #methuselah #revenge #violence #hate #anger #faithfulhusband #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Beautiful Jim Key the horse: The power of patience and kindness. (Did you immediately think of how this applies to extending patience and kindness to OTHERS? Always try applying these things to yourself, first. Think of how it applies to you extending patience and kindness toward yourself, first.) Taking advantage of time's wonderful and vast reservoir of beautiful and interesting things, such as music, movies, books, and so forth. 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. #beautifuljimkey #patience #kindness #horse #training #thepast #time #reservoir #stories #movies #books #music #films #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Just one of many probable disastrous consequences that naturally result from a false education about the very nature of human value and how it works. 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. #disastrous #consequences #humanvalue #selfworth #natureofworth #emotionalhealth #emotionalabuse #pooreducation #parentalfailure #children #emotionaldisorders #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

As usual, the world of "experts" love focusing on things that are not a problem and beating them like a dead horse, instead of identifying what the real problem is. They do this because they can get away with it on the merit of their academic titles, and because they lack INSIGHT. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #bullying #experts #insight #selfworth #problem #inherentworth #perceptions #healthychildren #unhealthychildren #humanvalue #humanworth #healthypeople #emotionalhealth #emotionalissues #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

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. 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 #bloodthickerthanwater #fatherinlaw #obituary #generationloss #socrates #allegoryofthecave #philosopherking #terriblethings #acceptance #emotionalhealth #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Would you trust a three-year-old child to establish for you the foundation nature of all things of importance that you will use to approach life and make decisions? This is, in fact, exactly the truth of what happens to all of us. It's why it is so important as adults to revisit fundamental conclusions we reached in childhood and challenge them. Many of them are faulty, and we arrived at them through misunderstanding and unhealthy influences. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett #humanworth #selfworth #thinking #fundamental #children #naturaldevelopment #feelings #self #humandevelopment #psychology #relationships #friendships #conflicts #unhealthyinfluences #life #emotionaldisorders #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Years of things that you can entirely and immediately forgive yourself for. Completely unload more than a decade's worth of burdensome baggage from off your tired back - it was never yours to carry in the first place. The Law of Individual Inherent Rights Responsibility & Authority. The incredibly-important, and powerful, principle of Capacity versus Ability. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #relief #regrets #instantrelief #forgivingyourself #selfforgiveness #baggage #burdensome #children #childhoodregrets #regrets #forgiveness #rights #responsibility #authority #capacity #ability #emotionalhealth #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

From a livestream in the woods with audience participation: That time I lost my virginity. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett #virginity #emotionalhealth #shame #acceptance #selfforgiveness #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

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. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett #mama #dogs #puppies #curabledisorders #angrylisteners #defrauding #frauds #emotionaldisorders #emotionalhealth #angry #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #truerecovery #poisonivy #hotdogs #appalachia #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Many things that aren't pleasant in the moment serve a long-term positive and constructive purpose. Bullying is one of those constructive experiences for healthy people, and it is inappropriately pointed to as the cause of things that it is not truly the cause of, by people who are not very smart and who are lacking in any real insight whatsoever. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app and search for The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #bullying #falsenarrative #constructive #positive #denial #acceptance #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #permanentrecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Hey folks, can you believe we're at #200? Holy mackerel. It seems like I just got the idea for Orange Slices yesterday. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com, or download the Locals.com app from the App Store and search The Last Symptom by Brian Barnett. #insight #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #completerecovery #emotionalabuse #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

The simple reason things like sex and gambling addictions ain't real. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #sexaddiction #gamblingaddiction #notreal #lies #incompetence #emotionaldisorders #sex

How experiences are enriched. A walk up an old backcountry road one evening and an encounter with a possum. The difficulties of jogging outside the city. A Dukes of Hazzard reference. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #sharedexperiences #sharedmoments #enriched #backcountryroad #possum #playingpossum #jogging #running #exercise #workout #dukesofhazzard #countryroad #emotionalhealth #emotionaldisorders #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #authenticrecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Just because I ‘feel’ like I’m doing a great job as a parent doesn’t mean I’m truly a good parent. Just because I love working with wood doesn’t automatically make me a great carpenter. Just because I’m passionate about singing doesn’t automatically make me a good singer. What then determines these sorts of realities? http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #parenting #feelings ##children #truths #qualityparenting #mothering #fathering #carpentry #denial #acceptance #emotionalhealth #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #truerecovery #completerecovery #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

The Last Symptom podcast S4 Ep 32: Johnny Depp & The BANK ROBBERS The Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial, things we can learn. Follow up to Will Smith. Does God's opinions reflect realities about us? http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #johnnydepp #bankrobbers #parents #godsopinion #god #willsmith #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorders #cure #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Taken from a Livestream in the woods with audience participation: The time I was caught pleasuring myself. The natural process of changing from children into young adults. Where do I want to be in ten years? Dog jealousy. Raising my daughter to be prepared for the real world. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #pleasuringmyself #caught #masturbation #puberty #woods #raisingchildrenright #dogjealousy #maturingphysically #livestream #emotionaldisorders #shame #noshame #normal #natural #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Your relationships aren’t like a standalone person or thing that exists on its own. Relationships are made up of individuals. When there are problems in a relationship, it’s not the fault of the ‘relationship’ - this abstract, non-existent thing. The problem is YOU and the problem is the other individual, and you can only do anything about only one of these two folks. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #relationships #problem #romanticrelationships #unhealthypeople #emotionalabuse #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #truerecovery #authenticrecovery #emotionalhealth #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

Whether or not to get your kids out of their current environment by leaving your partner. The only right conditions for that to occur. Analyzing my personal circumstances as a child along this topic. The single greatest factor for anybody considering separation or divorce. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual health. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #separation #divorce #kids #children #conditions #personalcircumstances #physicalhealth #mentalhealth #emotionalhealth #spiritualhealth #unlovable #toxicenvironment #inherentlydefective #irredeemable #emotionalabuse #selfishness #meanness #violence #abuse #emotionaldisorders #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

The positive thing about bad parents is that they can become good parents. But this first requires a level of honesty with oneself that many fail to demonstrate. We can’t fix what we refuse to look at, or see. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #badparents #goodparents #denial #acceptance #appearances #acting falsefront #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #curebpd #emotionalabuse #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

My daughter Eloise finally gets to tell you about electricity, which prompts a shocking campfire story about a cow fence, and some historically-famous poo. Also, the format I use for creating Orange Slices. http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #electricity #shocking #shockingtales #poo #tales #storytelling #electrocuted #campfirestory #historicalrecord #astronauts #apollo11 #fathersanddaughters #parenting #children #internationalspacestation #iss #emotionalabuse #borderlinepersonalitydisorder #bpd #emotionallyunstablepersonalitydisorder #eupd #cure #thelastsymptom #brianbarnett

A campfire story that I recorded for this week's episode of The Last Symptom podcast (S4 Ep 31), but that I ultimately cut from the show due to time. A yarn about learning to drive, and the time I rolled my dad's work van and almost killed all of us. CORRECTION: First car was a Mitsubishi Cordia (Not a 626. Mazda had a 626.) http://www.thelastsymptom.com Join our online community at thelastsymptom.locals.com #campfirestory #crash #wreck #collision #drivingpermit #neardeathexperience #miracle #coincidence #learningtodrive #emotionalhealth