Brainsick: Recent Episodes
BrainSick Podcast
A simple topic can bring an extensive conversation, invoke many deep thoughts, or such factious emulations shall arise!
Are people inherently born good or evil? Do psychopaths evolve naturally and are good people breed through positive nurturing? Or are we all born neutral, a blank page waiting to be colored? I try to be a good person. I want to be a good man, but am I?
Social Media addiction and cyber bullying is running rampant. Rabbit ears and hashtags are cracking the earth. Political debate is splitting up families and profile pictures are ending marriages. Get ready, because of the Four Horsemen of the Social Media Apocalypse is upon us!
Every story needs a Villain. Meet the monster of this fairy tale. We all have inner demons and monsters inside our heads. I deal with mine every time I look in the mirror. This short episode deals with the exorcism of my demons.
In some people, there is a constant war between empathy and apathy. Empathy is being able to understand and relation to emotion. Apathy is the opposite. Throw in Alexithymia and you have a mental melting pot. These are the modes of being.
There are only two things I really remember from reading the Satanic Bible in high school. One, the love spells DO NOT WORK! Two, there are psychic vampires who will suck the life force out of you. On today's episode I talk about cleaning negativity from your life, even if that involves cutting people out of your life. There are no detailed descriptions of physically cutting apart a human body in this episode. That will be released at a later date. Enjoy!
People have gone crazy with plastic surgery! No longer is it just baywatch fake tits. Now everyone is a cartoon character? Why?? What body issues do I have? Are women the only victims in this madness? I try to clear my brain and figure out plastic surgery.
Once upon a time, I was a fat little kid with caterpillar titties, but then I went into my cocoon. A safe and warm cocoon of self love and worth. I emerged from that cocoon a beautiful social butterfly! But over the past few years I've found myself growing more and more antisocial. My dreams now include hibernating and eventually buying a sheep farm on the coast of Ireland and becoming a hermit. Why? Why am I becoming this? What is going on with my brain?
If you don't know what IDGAF means, then google it. When I don't have time or energy to do a full episode, I'm going to do a short episode like this. Enjoy Vol 1 of IDGAF!
A skull fracture and brain injury leaves a few long lasting side effects. Those ailments are accompanied by a few other aches and pains I've endured in my life. On today's episode I take a look back at the most severe injuries in my life, along with a few problems I still have from my head injury.
Have you ever been locked deep in thought and stopped, looked around, and wondered if you were thinking or speaking out loud? What if our thoughts were always vocalized? Would it help or would it hurt? I try to wrap my brain sick mind around these deep thoughts on today's episode.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that I'm 36. School didn't prepare me for any of this! It's also amazing how much I've changed since I was younger. Yet the more I change and grow, the more I stay the same.
Observing a man in late 50s at a bar at 8am on a Tuesday can raise some questions. What makes a barfly? What are they looking for? What are they hoping to achieve? Do they not know they can get a bottle of karkov vodka for five bucks and get drunk at home? I open my brain and let the sickness flow as I try to understand barflies.
Some people over protect and coddle their kids and it turns their kids into little shits. Some people don't pay enough attention to their kids and they end up getting raped by a high school cheerleader with a coat hanger. What was my up bringing like? What kind of parent will I be? Why was I such a jerk to my mom?
We all have stupid useless hobbies. One of mine is People watching. Its simply sitting down at a crowded place, observing people, and creating weird, extensive, fictional, backstories for people you see. Is it just me exercising my imagination? Is it me trying to make myself feel better? Or is it my inner demons trying to peak out and say hi?
Dreams are all some people have. It's all that keeps them going. But some people just have nightmares. Whats the difference between a nightmare and a dream? Can you die in a dream? And why do I say and do random creepy shit in my sleep??
What makes a man tick? Am I an angry person? Today I reflect on my so called "anger issues" and dive deep into what really pisses me off and how I deal with it.