David Cooper (host)

to those impulses you know suppose you've got a wife who's jealous of the husband a lot and you know his female co-worker texts him something about work and you see it on the phone you know what a reasonable thing there's nothing phony going on nothing fishy going on i guess uh that wife may not be able to control the impulse of suspecting that oh he must be having an affair because his his co-worker texted him about an excel spreadsheet

Yes.

She has a choice with how she acts and how she treats that impulse.

No, it's a very technical and like, you know, psychology kind of method of what I'm talking about, which is like not as technical.

But this idea of, okay, I'm feeling very low today.

Like I think last week or the week before I was talking to some psychologist who did a research paper about how loneliness can be a feeling one has when they actually have community.

Yes.

Being socially isolated and that feeling of loneliness, they can be separate.

And I'm someone who can be in a room with my friends and feel like I don't fit in and that I'm lonely.

I can also be someone home alone with nothing to do and feel fine.

And so...

Just taking that moment to myself and saying, this is the mood of the moment, the mood of the day, and it will pass.

I have felt this way before and then woken up the next day and not felt this way.

It feels very extreme.

You know, I feel very lonely, very much uncomfortable in my own skin, very much like regretting that I left my house and it'll pass.

And it's also true for really kind of manic moods where I want to do a million things.

You know, the other day I did a live radio show last Friday.

I filled in for a colleague.

And then I had my show that night.

And my girlfriend's like, you're working way too much.