02-13-2011, 09:56 AM
Quote:In my experience, shy of purely chemical responses, depression is often a sublimated anger or frustration response that for one reason or another you feel like you cannot express as what it is. It's like a volcano that just can't explode... it becomes a feeling of being stuck between a rock and a hard place, and then turns to hopelessness.
Now the question is, if that's what's happening, why are you feeling that way from Stage 2, which is beginning to introduce alpha stuff? I can't think of any reason that would happen. Unless you're living at home and literally can't be the independent alpha the program is trying to make you... or you for some reason or other literally cannot express it...
Not sure if this was directed to Ryan or me. But I definitely can relate to a frustration response. I've been trying to figure out a career path for a while now, what to do with my life. It's just been this little nagging thought in the back of my head that never goes away. I'm attending a community college, so I commute back and forth from my house. I didn't want to go away to college because it would cost too much and at the time I had too much anxiety about the whole thing.
It's very possible that it's not the subliminal bringing up the depression/hopelessness for me. I have felt like this before when I first started college and was struggling to find a path. It's one of those things that I talk to my parents about and they just tell me not to worry and I will find my path. It's unresolved feelings of frustration because I feel very lost and confused.
In you opinion Shannon would the subliminal effect me in a negative way if I am still living at home? It doesn't really bother me because I am studying and trying to pursue a certain career path. It's not like I'm being lazy and mooching off my parents money. Hell I probably work harder than the kids that go to college just to get wasted, have sex, party, all the while spending their parents money because they are rich anyway. I got a scholarship this year which is helping with my debt that I am slowly incurring from student loans.
