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Flight Control. He mentioned several times this was one of his all-time favorite iPhone games and convinced me to download it. In it you control the paths of airplanes and land them. It gets progressively harder as more planes come and you have to keep track of them all. I remember he used this game in an analogy about the brain and episodes of depression that was really helpful to me. The brain/conscious/self ("the air traffic controller") works hard to monitor and keep in check subparts of the self/unconscious ("the airplanes"); everything is okay for awhile but eventually you lose focus and lose track of everything. All these little parts of the self/unconscious seem to get out of control, resulting in an overall sense of incoherence and disorder, and depression ("crashing") results.