Episode 48 - Pendulum Thinking and DBT

We start off our episode this week with a conversation about suicidal thoughts and ideations. Jason shares with us, how he has been going through a rough time and has been battling self-worth issues and suicidal thoughts. Our conversation runs through some of his thought processes and support systems that he has reached out to. This week’s Deep Dive delves into a form of thinking that Edward has recently discovered for himself and he calls Pendulum thinking. Based on the principle of Suspension of Disbelief (accepting that something could be true even though he does not ordinarily believe that it is) and the philosophy that if something is true then the opposite must also be true. We discover that this is a DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) technique that is used in behavior, but that Edward has also been using with intrinsic values and world views to discover his authentic self. In our Off the Rails this week, we discuss cereal wars. Our memories of our favorite cereals turn into horror stories about breakfast cereals. Then into strange things we have eaten. From there we really go off the rails with stories about mealworms, crickets, scorpions, and more.