Chasing Highs

[DISCLAIMER]

I recently listened to an electronic dance music (EDM) DJ set by Saviela during which she spun the track “Chasing Highs” (2025) by Argy, Eli & Dani, Peki (Ofc), and ØSHER. In part, lyrics state:

Ridin’ solo

Ridin’ solo, got the juice

Plot on mine, cut me loose

That’s that somethin’, I need new

I get high, through the roof

Ridin’ solo, chasing highs

Stackin’ bills, watch ‘em fly

Feel the rush, I can’t deny

I’m gon’ roll through the ride

I view these lyrics as mostly gibberish (unintelligible or meaningless language). It’s the kind of nonsense (words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas) I’ve come to anticipate from modern progressive house tracks which serve as soundtracks to energetic events.

Nevertheless, I can extract a psychoeducational lesson on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) from the song. Specifically, I think of my approach to professional care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”).

It isn’t uncommon for prospective clients to contact me and express how they’re seeking joy and pleasure regarding an impermanent and uncertain life in which a person is more likely to endure suffering, inconvenience, petty annoyances, and minor obstacles than actual happiness.

Noteworthy, REBT is informed by Epicureanism and hedonism (the philosophy of Epicurus who subscribed to a hedonistic ethics that considered an imperturbable emotional calm the highest good and whose followers held intellectual pleasures superior to transient sensualism).

Also, many professional REBT theorists promote hedonic lifestyles. I’m not like them. In fact, when reading their literature and listening to their audiovisual presentations, to me, it sounds as though they’re speaking gibberish and nonsense! Thus, I’m not concerned with chasing highs.

Alternatively, I recognize the positive, neutral, and negative elements of life. Therefore, I allow balance of these waxing and waning components of existence without foolhardily seeking to eradicate negativity or needlessly self-disturbing when hard times inevitably occur.

As a matter of full disclosure, I tell prospective clients about my approach to mental health care. If they desire to set out chasing highs, then so be it. Meanwhile, I’ll be here fully experiencing life with its highs, lows, and everything in between. Thus, I may be “ridin’ solo” as a result.

How about you? Do you rigidly engage in demandingness whereby you absolutistically or conditionally refuse to engage in anything other than chasing highs? If so, how’s that working for you? Or better yet, is it a functional strategy at all? If not, then I may be able to help.

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help you understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

As the world’s foremost EDM-influenced REBT psychotherapist—promoting content related to EDM, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters. 

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

Photo credit, fair use

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