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RaNTS
RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM A COMPARTMENTALIZED MIND


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...
Jon Sommers
Sep 29, 20214 min read


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
May 25, 20215 min read


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
Apr 7, 20215 min read


Highly Functioning Dysfunction
How many times have I heard the phrase “highly functioning”? Like highly functioning alcoholic, highly functioning personality disorder...
Jon Sommers
Feb 15, 20214 min read

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...
Mike Szot
Dec 30, 20203 min read


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
Dec 19, 20204 min read


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
Oct 22, 20205 min read


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
Sep 17, 20205 min read


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
Aug 4, 20204 min read


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
Jun 5, 20203 min read


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
Mar 2, 20203 min read


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
Feb 1, 20203 min read


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 15, 20203 min read


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
Jan 2, 20203 min read


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...
Jon Sommers
Dec 1, 20193 min read
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