Jon Sommers
Finding Balance (or not)
How many of us think we are balanced people – that all of the aspects of our lives are in perfect harmony with each other – that we have...
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RaNTS
RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM A COMPARTMENTALIZED MIND
Jon Sommers
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Chasing the Pills
“There’s a pill for that” should be our national motto. Because in most cases, there is. Sometimes several pills actually. But what...
Jon Sommers
- Apr 7, 2021
- 5 min
What’s the Trendline?
The word “relapse” in both Mental Health (MH) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) most simply means that symptoms have returned. In other...
Jon Sommers
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Highly Functioning Dysfunction
How many times have I heard the phrase “highly functioning”? Like highly functioning alcoholic, highly functioning personality disorder...
Mike Szot
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Mental Prison
In the mind there exists a prison. We’re trapped inside a vehicle that the ego drives. In this vehicle—fear is in the driver’s seat, ego...
Jon Sommers
- Dec 19, 2020
- 4 min
The Fracked Brain
The bedrock of our psyche is normally a solid rock, deeply rooted beneath the complex layers of our brain and personality. But what...
Jon Sommers
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
The Tip of the Iceberg
Victor Frankl is quoted as saying that “An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.” This can certainly be said...
Jon Sommers
- Sep 17, 2020
- 5 min
Paradoxical Tastebuds
Alcohol doesn’t taste good at the start. It’s horrible fermented stuff that burns. I mean, it is a disinfectant and a poison that kills...
Jon Sommers
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
My Three Mountains
When we were young children with developing brains, we viewed the world through only our eyes and assumed that others saw the same. This...
Jon Sommers
- Jun 5, 2020
- 3 min
A Pill by Any Other Name
I can take a pill for an erection and get sympathy for my condition. But if I take a pill that balances the chemicals in my brain, I’m...
Jon Sommers
- Mar 2, 2020
- 3 min
Default Operating System
So it happens again. You’re in the middle of a document, email, video game, or otherwise important function and your computer crashes. ...
Jon Sommers
- Feb 1, 2020
- 3 min
Chicken or Egg
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Yeah, this argument has been around for quite a while. So in our context, what comes first:...
Jon Sommers
- Jan 15, 2020
- 3 min
Now I Just Get Angry
“I used to get angry and get drunk. Now I just get angry.” I first heard this phrase about a year ago from one of my group members. I...
Jon Sommers
- Jan 2, 2020
- 3 min
Eye of the Beholder
Labels are both helpful and harmful. While labels help to define things, they also overly generalize and categorize people. They become...
Jon Sommers
- Dec 1, 2019
- 3 min
Heroin is Ice Cream
You read the title. It’s probably why you clicked on it to see how far down the rabbit hole I’ll go on this. Most of what I say is...
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