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In Session 12

The Lay Psychiatrist toughens up his butting — I worked the head bag today. Head butting should not come as a surprise knockout to you, but to your target. The first time I tried it I was about six. I had seen a man on television win a fight by using his head. I connected the abstract concept…

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In Session 13

The Lay Psychiatrist dreams about big snakes — I woke up with the blues. It was dark out, too early to want to get up. My troubled mind was reflecting in a dream about being threatened by a big snake. A snake is a spinal column without any add ons. There is the base of a brain but…

Lay Psychiatrist

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In Session

The Secret Journals of a lay psychiatrist — As I open this chapter of my life to pubic view … that was a Freudian slip but I don’t care it all goes in … it feels like a scene from a movie, the curtain pulled aside, me, in noir and blanc, peeing down at the street. When the…

Humor

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·5 days ago

The Lay Psychiatrist: Back Story

If he he needed a degree he’d steal it off a doctor’s wall — “Okay, boss, it’s time to rock and roll.” The Layman looked down at the other man from the mountain on which he’d built his head. His eyes were sad today. Tender could see that. Not good when you go into the cage with faraway eyes. He was called Tender not…

Lay Psychiatrist

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·6 days ago

In Session: 19

The Lay Psychiatrist and The Undertaker — It was dark out until I remembered I was wearing a sleeping mask. The light was blinding until I remembered my bedroom window faces west. I was disoriented. …

Lay Psychiatrist

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·Jul 26

Thank You!

Thank you thank you thank you — I was listening to a Ted Talk by Charles Eugster about why a 93-year-old should be a bodybuilder. There were a few components he mentioned to staying fit, and the first one was keep working. This helps keep the brain fit, slowing the shrinkage that comes with old age. …

Medium

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·Jul 25

In Session (18)

The Lay Psychiatrist lays a client — “I’ve never stepped into that ring, it’s somebody else who lives in me. Personally, I don’t like to fight. I like to read self help books and share what I learn with others.” (The Lay Psychiatrist) It’s not exactly raining, it’s more like we are in the embrace of wet…

Lay Psychiatrist

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·Jul 25

High Class Troll

Sometimes it feels like correctness is a razor blade — Do you ever get into a situation where somebody seems to be trolling, even though they are well spoken and present themselves as elite? The context was a video in which a doctor said the size of ldl particles doesn’t matter, it’s all equally dangerous, and I replied that this…

You Tube

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·Jul 19

The Tesla Experience

I drive locally, and travel back and forth to San Francisco — Many years ago I began flying between San Francisco and Phoenix to exercise visitation rights with my only daughter, who was taken there by her mom. Swirling around the plot point was an obsessive attraction to what I now suspect was my grandmother disguised as a thirty year old Italian…

Tesla Model 3

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·Jul 18

Automatic Writing

What is it and how to do it — I just read an article from Coffee Times by Barry Chaffee, on how to break through writer’s block. It was about automatic writing, just writing what comes into your head without censoring or editing. …

Active Imagination

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