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Depression is like love in the sense that we use both words interchangeably to mean different things. Love can refer to the love your wife or the love of a hamburger. We inherently know that they're two different things, or at least assume so, but with depression we often don't realize how that can confused for something else entirely. I affectionately called these differences little "d" depression and big "D" depression. The little describes our every day neurosis that we can get into when we're not taking care of our bodies and our minds. Big D depression is often the result of avoiding that management work that needs to be done. The way chemicals work in our mind can often define how or when that manifests for us, but for the most part, that average person who isn't experiencing chemical challenges can stave off depression of both kinds with self-care and heading towards their problems instead of avoiding them. Big D depression can be much more tricky to manage and typically involves some medication or clinical support. Those differences are important for us to know so we don't take our mental health, in any state, for granted. 

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We have a pretty high chance of having some sort of religious experience in our lives. I don't mean a spiritual awakening experience but I mean falling hard and fast for a framework that has a set list of rules and morals attached to it. That can be any number of ideas that feel like you're a part of a cult and fully buy in to these ideas being the only version of truth. There is some survival purpose in that, but to grow and develop we have to eventually subvert that. We have to realize that we can't dictate or speak for someone else's experience in life. We're all navigating our own details and issues that only our mind can be ready to tackle. At some point, any instruction manual that we've been given about how to navigate life has to be thrown out the window because it no longer applies. 
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Ever since I was a kid I've been obsessed with culture. Mostly because I didn't fit in much as a nerd and an atheist that didn't really know that other nerds and atheists existed. Everything that was popular was something I didn't really resonate with. Or at least that's how I felt but I never realized that culture as a whole naturally brings people together. Cartoons, shared growth experiences, being in a family, living in a certain town or wearing a certain type of clothing all tends to bring with it some sort of cultural connection. However, sometimes, those cultural connections create a sense of cult-ish behavior when there is protection around a certain idea. Religions have their own rules, dating has it's own rules, what is considered a form of fashion has its own rule-set, and social justice is often fighting for a change in rules while also sticking to its own set of rules (even if they haven't been fully defined yet). With those rules, often comes a sense of morality, and that morality can create conflict when brushed up against other cultures. Of course ours is better than theirs, its OURs. And that's the point of it all. We take ownership over the things we hold so dearly to our identity and therefore either join or form a cult around those ideas. But that's not the fate of humanity, often self-awareness can be a massive step in separating yourself from a hateful place of cult vs. cult and moving into a place of hold space, love, admiration and respect for other people.
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As an INTP, it's not been the easiest road when it comes to learning how to have patience for emotions. My version of helping someone is usually finding a solution to their problem. That can sometimes subvert or create a shortcut for someone who isn't ready for the later stage of what they're going through. On this episode I talk about the different stages of emotional challenges, how to identify them and how you can help someone in each of those stages or even recognize when you're not able to help someone. Part of what I do on this show is help identify if someone needs therapy or if they just need better support and I think this episode really exemplifies that idea. So, I'd love it if you'd join me on the episode and give me your feedback when you're done. How do you best help someone?

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Today on the show we're talking about using social currency as a way to get out of or avoid poverty when you don't have a job or are trying to work as a freelancer. Just this morning I came across a Reddit post asking about what someone might do if they only had $600 and might end up homeless. My answer was to use social currency as a means to build rapport with shop owners or places that you could work at immediately and develop a network of people willing to hear your story and help you out. We dive into that idea quite a bit, relate it to mental health and being a freelancer. 

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Today on the show we're talking about using enneagram and chakras in my growth path as an INTP. I personally have had issues with trust and stability in my past which was brought out through my exploration with the enneagram and chakras. While some of this stuff can feel a bit too woo-woo for some people, I want to clarify that it's not about the content of dissonance that sometimes needs to occur to accept the ideas, it's about the descriptions of these types and what emotional response they prompt. It's almost as if we're looking for triggers on purpose to identify how we can learn from those triggers. If we don't know what's affecting us then how can we possibly grow from those things? That's exactly what I'm sharing and breaking down on this episode of DOPEamine!

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Hey friends! Today on the show we're talking about ego defensiveness and humor development. In Myers-Briggs, it's typically known that the tertiary function is tied to ego defensiveness, that when you're arguing with someone they tend to bring their less-sophisticated tertiary function to the fight. That can be frustrating for the personal ego to not only use that function but frustrating for others to experience a side of you that they don't normally see. So, identifying that defensive behavior can be an important first step to understanding your personality type and how to grow your sense of humor, another form of ego defense, in a healthy constructive way. I'm in the early stages of my understanding this idea but we attempt to break it all down anyway here on DOPEamine! Let's go!

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Today on the show we're diving into some deep dark topics to address how, as humans, we can avoid some of the most difficult feelings that come up for us. Often ones that involve death, violence and sexuality. We talk about how it is sometimes actually helpful to address these dark thoughts to figure out the origin of these days to figure out where to go next, decide if we need to speak to a therapist or if we need some support in our lives to give us space to work through an idea to come out on the other side of that idea. 

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Today on the show we're talking about managing our emotional state in the moment. What are some questions that we can ask ourselves to regulate our mood when we're dealing with high stress, triggers and other things in the moment? We take time to break down our environmental, physical and emotional needs to consider what's possible within ourselves to manage our emotional state in any given moment. I wanted to touch on this topic without simply saying "see a therapist" because that doesn't help with every day life. So, sit back and get comfy as we break down 3 way to change your mood. Let's go!

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Today on the show we're talking about my time on the Personality Hacker Podcast, mental health in relation to being an INTP, where some mental health research can go and how the industrial world could be having a major effect on how we view ourselves. I want to continue to work towards improving the connection points between Myers-Briggs and mental health to better improve humanities of ourselves and help us live more fulfilling and happy lives.

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