These gifts may help you/ From suffering holidays/ Alone with your thoughts

WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.830 Hi, welcome back to Emo do joe for December. Third. It's Thursday. 2 00:00:10.910 --> 00:00:17.030 I'm johnny emotions. Thanks for joining me. I had a pretty crappy 3 00:00:17.030 --> 00:00:21.899 day, but I'm just going to do the opposite, going the opposite this 4 00:00:22.019 --> 00:00:26.379 time. Fuck it. If such a bad day that. Yeah, all 5 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:28.739 I can do is try to find the bright side. So I found a 6 00:00:28.780 --> 00:00:33.820 cool article here. You know when you see these gifts for people lists? 7 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:39.409 Well, this one's for anyone struggling with their mental health this year, and 8 00:00:39.649 --> 00:00:46.090 really, WHO's not? This is over on Huffington Post if you want to 9 00:00:46.130 --> 00:00:49.890 check it out. I always like to look through these and see if they're 10 00:00:49.890 --> 00:00:53.719 accurate or just a bunch of bullshit, and this list turned out to be 11 00:00:53.759 --> 00:00:57.000 pretty good. That's why I'm sharing it. So let's get to it. 12 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.240 The first thing they have on the list here is a light therapy lamp. 13 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.950 I don't know if anybody thinks that this is some kind of bullshit therapy, 14 00:01:07.269 --> 00:01:11.950 but this is for real, totally proven, long time history of scientific data 15 00:01:12.069 --> 00:01:18.189 backing up the power of sunlight. So if you live in a dark climate 16 00:01:18.230 --> 00:01:22.780 or somewhere where it's cloudy all the time, place like Alaska, or just 17 00:01:23.180 --> 00:01:27.060 you know, northern hemisphere with the days get super short, anything like that. 18 00:01:29.019 --> 00:01:32.099 They yeah, they got them all over the place that like from about 19 00:01:32.180 --> 00:01:34.530 thirty too, I don't know, a hundred, fifty bucks if you get 20 00:01:34.530 --> 00:01:40.530 a really big one. They are super bright and they work. For me, 21 00:01:40.569 --> 00:01:44.250 I like it a lot. I have a little one to maybe ten 22 00:01:44.329 --> 00:01:49.079 inches square. At it for several years. Never had to replace the Bulb 23 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:53.840 and you stick it wherever, turn it on and about. It seems to 24 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.040 take a couple seconds to get to the full actual temperature of the sun. 25 00:01:57.560 --> 00:02:01.870 I mean not heat temperature but color temperature. Light comes in temperatures from like 26 00:02:01.989 --> 00:02:07.230 orange to blue, and the sun is in the blue range, really high 27 00:02:07.269 --> 00:02:10.270 temperature. So the key with the light therapy lamp. They work so well 28 00:02:10.310 --> 00:02:15.900 that you actually have to follow the directions, which is typically add sun to 29 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:19.419 your day during a darkened a day. So if the day is dark, 30 00:02:20.219 --> 00:02:23.860 add sun from like eleven am to two PM. You're good. Don't add 31 00:02:23.939 --> 00:02:29.020 sun after four or five or definitely turn it on at night time when you're 32 00:02:29.020 --> 00:02:31.889 supposed to be getting ready to go to bed, because it will fuck up 33 00:02:31.930 --> 00:02:36.330 your circadian rhythms. So anyway, gift number one is pretty cool. Light 34 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:40.129 therapy lamp if you or anybody you knows feeling kind of down, definitely worth 35 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:47.680 checking out. The next one up is a talk space gift card. Hmm, 36 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:53.520 we read it. Oh, digital therapy. So if this is like 37 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:57.439 tell therapy where you get to talk to a real human through video, that's 38 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.629 cool. I take that idea. Based on my experience, the only downside 39 00:03:01.669 --> 00:03:07.469 to a gift like this is the issue of continuity of care. So if 40 00:03:07.469 --> 00:03:12.550 you already see a therapist, getting that data transferred over to this new talk 41 00:03:12.629 --> 00:03:16.460 therapy gift card therapist and your meds and the history of her, I mean 42 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:23.379 your records, all that stuff to a talk therapy therapist seems daunting. And 43 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:29.810 if it's only a gift of therapy card for a month, like what's the 44 00:03:29.889 --> 00:03:32.289 point? Like they're just going to kind of interrupt your therapy. So there's 45 00:03:32.330 --> 00:03:36.250 the issue of continuity of care, is all I'm saying. So if you're 46 00:03:36.289 --> 00:03:38.889 going to give somebody a thing like a talk space gift card unless they're going 47 00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:44.439 through something that's, I guess, more temporary than other things, grief for 48 00:03:44.599 --> 00:03:46.520 something possibly, I don't know, grief lasts a long time too. But 49 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:51.639 basically, don't just give them a temporary gift card and then leave them hanging, 50 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:55.550 like give them a year's worth or don't interrupt their other therapy at all. 51 00:03:55.789 --> 00:04:00.789 That's my thought. Next gift on the list a highly recommended SELFHELP book. 52 00:04:01.270 --> 00:04:04.669 Hmm Yeah, I love books. I have a public book list on 53 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:10.099 my Amazon Account, so anybody knows me, they check out my public book 54 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:15.019 list and buy me books. Love Books. I usually read nonfiction. I'll 55 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:17.860 read fiction once in awhile if I find something really kind of cool, sci 56 00:04:17.939 --> 00:04:23.019 fi or dystopic future. You're that kind of thing. I don't know. 57 00:04:23.019 --> 00:04:26.089 It seems like it would be hard to buy a self help book for another 58 00:04:26.170 --> 00:04:30.290 person because that you don't know what they want to help themselves with, but 59 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:32.689 anyway, it's worth a shot. If you've read something and you like it, 60 00:04:33.050 --> 00:04:36.250 that's a great start, because at least you have a basis for which 61 00:04:36.290 --> 00:04:39.720 to recommend the book, and if your friend reads it to then you can 62 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:43.519 share and have like a mini book club. This next one's kind of odd, 63 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.519 but I think I like it. Number four is an affirmation card deck. 64 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:53.470 It's just like a deck of cards with these affirmations like I am grateful. 65 00:04:54.069 --> 00:04:58.350 I realized that what is right about my life and I like that kind 66 00:04:58.350 --> 00:05:00.829 of thing. Kind of weird, but I am attacked all person I like 67 00:05:00.870 --> 00:05:05.069 to have something to fiddle with with my hands. Yeah, I could dig 68 00:05:05.149 --> 00:05:09.699 this. An't know. Like fifteen bucks for a affirmation card deck seems like 69 00:05:09.740 --> 00:05:13.220 a reasonable price for a gift, because you're not going to throw them away 70 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:15.740 or lose them. Really like it's a deck of card. It stays around 71 00:05:15.779 --> 00:05:17.899 forever. But these you can leave in the bathroom while you're sitting on the 72 00:05:17.939 --> 00:05:23.689 toilet and just read through some affirmations. Get bored of work, looking for 73 00:05:23.769 --> 00:05:26.889 a pin or something. Slide open that drawer. Oh there's a car. 74 00:05:26.970 --> 00:05:30.889 Let me flick through a couple. There's some affirmations, all right, not 75 00:05:30.009 --> 00:05:35.240 a post of that cute. Number five is boring, non slip Yoga Mat 76 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.439 and if you give this to the wrong person, you're sending the wrong message. 77 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:46.079 Anyway. You Fat. You should exercise. What are you trying to 78 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.709 say? Number six as a calm membership. So calm is an APP that 79 00:05:51.790 --> 00:05:58.509 people use for mindfulness. My issue with this is you should just own things 80 00:05:58.550 --> 00:06:03.579 and not rent them, and I believe with calm it's a renters model. 81 00:06:03.939 --> 00:06:06.579 You can't use calm and you just you, just a renter. You never 82 00:06:06.660 --> 00:06:11.579 a buy or you'll never own calm, you'll be renting it forever. I 83 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:15.939 do not like that about software. So I'm going to go thumbs down on 84 00:06:15.019 --> 00:06:18.610 number six, a calm membership. If you want to check out calm the 85 00:06:18.649 --> 00:06:23.170 APP, go for it's got a free trial. I'm sure. Seven fits 86 00:06:23.209 --> 00:06:32.240 into the book category again, and uplifting poetry book as opposed to what Edgar 87 00:06:32.279 --> 00:06:38.920 Allan Poh. I don't know. What's uplifting to you is probably different than 88 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:43.439 what's uplifting to me. So if you know your friends and know what's uplifting 89 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:46.310 to them, that's a cool idea. Poetry is always fascinating, because the 90 00:06:46.430 --> 00:06:51.949 longer you look at good poetry, the deeper it gets. The next gift 91 00:06:51.990 --> 00:06:59.509 idea for anyone struggling with their mental health this year is a high quality journal. 92 00:07:00.750 --> 00:07:04.339 I got a bullet journal. I like it, not because I use 93 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:08.740 it in any particular format. I like to doodle a lot in my journals 94 00:07:09.540 --> 00:07:14.939 and it's more fun to doodle on a bullet grid pattern than on just lie 95 00:07:15.100 --> 00:07:17.569 ends. Yeah, I dig it. I mean what? How could a 96 00:07:17.569 --> 00:07:20.730 journal be a bad gift? I mean maybe if they got too many, 97 00:07:20.850 --> 00:07:27.089 but get to write and writes right some more filled them journals up. Number 98 00:07:27.129 --> 00:07:30.759 Nine Wild I've had one of these before, a weighted blanket. The one 99 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.319 I got, I think, was a little too heavy, which is saying 100 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:38.839 something because I'm a pretty big dude. It just too much, but it 101 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:43.639 was neat, although I guess I'd like to try in a cold climate really, 102 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:46.110 because I tried it in San Francisco and it never really got cold there, 103 00:07:47.069 --> 00:07:50.550 in combination with with the blanket being a little too heavy. Yeah, 104 00:07:50.550 --> 00:07:56.430 I just made me hot, too hot. And their waighted blankets. They 105 00:07:56.430 --> 00:08:00.420 don't they're not good for snuggling. Like you can pile a down blanket up 106 00:08:00.779 --> 00:08:03.019 off to you, off to one side, you know, and kind of 107 00:08:03.220 --> 00:08:05.740 snuggle up on it, but with the weighted blanket it's like individual pockets of 108 00:08:05.819 --> 00:08:09.860 beans, bean bag type things, or a little glass beads or something. 109 00:08:09.899 --> 00:08:13.089 Check it out, though, because I know like weighted blankets, or the 110 00:08:13.170 --> 00:08:16.889 idea of a weighted blanket, works for animals. There's a thing called a 111 00:08:16.009 --> 00:08:24.050 thundershirt for dogs and cats to kind of calm them during fireworks and things like 112 00:08:24.170 --> 00:08:28.720 that. So there's some science behind putting pressure on the whole system, the 113 00:08:28.800 --> 00:08:33.480 whole trunk, chest and whatnot, makes feel like you're being hugged like a 114 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.960 baby. Bit So weighted blanket. You got to be careful, though, 115 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.399 because they're weighted and they're super heavy, like the whole box might be fifty 116 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:45.990 pounds, so it's going to cost you something to ship as well. Number 117 00:08:46.070 --> 00:08:50.350 ten, fun bath accessories. Yeah, sure, why not? Do you 118 00:08:50.429 --> 00:08:56.940 take a bath? I do showers, baths, whatever, usually throwing a 119 00:08:56.980 --> 00:09:00.860 bunch of EPS and salt, because they say that's a good way to absorb 120 00:09:00.980 --> 00:09:07.580 magnesium into your system and magnesium is good for mentally ill people's brains. So 121 00:09:07.980 --> 00:09:11.490 eps and salt bath is cool, and the accessory they show here look like 122 00:09:11.610 --> 00:09:16.330 some little volcano bath bombs. Pretty cool. Number Eleven on the list of 123 00:09:16.409 --> 00:09:22.769 twelve gifts for anyone struggling with their mental health this year a delicious and Calming 124 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:31.080 Tea Collection. I'm down with tea. I just gotta Hmm. How would 125 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.440 I describe it? Well, it's a teapot. I got a teapot on 126 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:37.559 Amazon, but it's for loose leaf tea, so it's got this metal cylinder 127 00:09:37.590 --> 00:09:41.429 that goes down the middle, which is got super fine holes in it. 128 00:09:41.549 --> 00:09:46.389 Basically a screen and you can throw any kind of crap you want and go 129 00:09:46.549 --> 00:09:50.269 get some some dirt and some scrub from the outside and throw it in there 130 00:09:50.269 --> 00:09:54.179 if you want. But now there's a brand called that Davidson teas on Amazon, 131 00:09:54.299 --> 00:09:58.700 and they so big old bag of Ir Vedic, Tea, Chi, 132 00:09:58.940 --> 00:10:05.100 tea mate, whatever you want, super fresh, super like whoa powerful. 133 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:09.690 Throw that in there, wake you up. So yeah, super down with 134 00:10:09.769 --> 00:10:13.769 the idea of sending somebody tea. In fact, the teapot is pretty cheap 135 00:10:13.809 --> 00:10:18.090 too. I think that's like less than twenty five dollars. Who I like 136 00:10:18.250 --> 00:10:24.960 this one a lot. Number twelve a restaurant or delivery gift card. Who 137 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:31.879 doesn't like fucking fast food delivered to your door? Love it. So that 138 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.639 was pretty quick and easy, Hey, and I think that's enough to count 139 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.389 for fucking podcast episode really. So I'm kind of off the hook and I 140 00:10:39.509 --> 00:10:43.549 really do need to get some rest. I'm coming to part at the seams, 141 00:10:45.029 --> 00:10:46.789 doing my best to hold it together. So let's recap this list and 142 00:10:46.870 --> 00:10:50.940 I'm going to get out of here. The list twelve gifts for anyone struggling 143 00:10:50.980 --> 00:10:56.220 with their mental health this year. Light therapy lamp, Talk Space Gift Card, 144 00:10:58.179 --> 00:11:03.860 a highly rendered a highly recommended self help book, an affirmation Card Deck, 145 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:11.730 a non slip Yoga Mats, a calm membership, an uplifting poetry book, 146 00:11:11.730 --> 00:11:22.039 a High Quality Journal, awaited blanket, fun bath accessories, a delicious 147 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:31.279 and Calming Tea Collection and a restaurant or delivery gift card set simple. Huh? 148 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.909 Okay, I'm going to go have my feelings to myself and I will 149 00:11:35.190 --> 00:11:45.110 talk to you tomorrow. I'm not of my sad, I'm not said, 150 00:11:46.220 --> 00:11:54.019 I'm not of my said, Whoa work. I'm not of my said. 151 00:11:54.740 --> 00:13:01.970 My said, my said, said. And now back to the wall.