Recent content by anacoluthon33

that is a rock-solid evidence sheet. Rest well on that. You're in the right place and doing the right work. Keep going.

I experienced those symptoms before, over a period of maybe half a year. It felt serious enough that I got checked out by a GP who then sent me to a urologist. Both confirmed they could see nothing wrong. A curious diagnosis, because to me, this problem felt very wrong. (This was long before I...

How right you are! In one of his last scenes, Johnny Sacrimoni (the character we're talking about here—boss of one of the NY families) asks his brother-in-law how he'll be remembered after he dies. The brother-in-law responds: decisive, a powerful leader . . . BUT some people think you've become...

Indeed, @JanAtheCPA . In the context of the scene, it's clear that the character, mentioning six-year-olds and their "negative thinking," is in both deep despair and complete denial of that despair. That's one psychological reflex that this show dedicates itself to exposing so completely...

Tony, for sure. Remember, Dr Melfi helps trace the genesis of his panic attacks to the gabagool; how the meat that his mother prepares is a product of his father Jonny Boy's violence, specifically cutting the fingers off poor Satriale. (There's a weird sexual element to the meat, too.) Tony's...

Cool, man, I appreciate your interest, and for bringing this topic up in the first place. I love BS'ing about the show but I don't really get the chance to talk about it this way with the people I know! Yeah, Ralphie's got a lot of problems :) and Livia, indeed, there is a lot going on there...

oh and one more: the last episode of Season 2, "Funhouse," Tony comes down with food poisoning, either from the Indian restaurant or his friend Artie's Italian restaurant; he's throwing up the whole episode and is in bad shape. The episode ends with Tony killing one of his best men Pussy, who's...

oh and just one more: Agent Dwight Harris suffers from a "parasite" he gets from Pakistan, once he's transferred from following the New Jersey mafia to focus on Islamic terrorism. This ailment follows him for so long that Christopher, surprised, asks him "still?" Agent Harris himself admits...

Hey @Tom_Chase , I have long thought of writing a book-length study on The Sopranos & TMS theory. It's my contention that the show is a perfect demonstration of how it all works, even if the writers of the show didn't intend it to be. As you note, Tony is the centre of the show, and his...

Hi everyone, I've arrived at a crossroads. Just wanting a take or two on it. I've more or less accepted my condition as TMS, even though I'm not really progressing with it and I'm not as proactive as I could be in committing to a program. A large part of me is still "sitting on the fence," as...

Great answers by @Cactusflower and @JanAtheCPA. There will always be doubters, especially on the internet, especially on forums. YouTube comment sections are notoriously… unreliable places for information, let’s say. Avoiding these “bad neighbourhoods” (Dan Buglio’s term) is part of redirecting...

Yes, things got severe for me in June 2020. Congratulations to those who found themselves, or worked to be, relatively unaffected by that time (the hangover after-effects of which are still, in many areas, among us). I could write a book, however, on how that time forward not only hit but...

Hi @Booble, let me share my thoughts on your original post. As a consciously (and continually) angry person myself, I understand what you mean as you talk about your friend and the surrounding political situation. You bring to my mind the relationship between anger/rage and control. Anger is...

Hi @james9494 , I’m writing to you right now because your “symptoms” sound a lot like mine. (I try not to speak about symptoms whenever I post here because I do believe that “one person’s back pain is another’s migraine is another’s chronic fatigue,” i.e. that symptoms are equivalent and...