Could be. So let me ask you this. I get hungry sometimes. Sometimes I feel like a victim to my hunger pangs. When my wife cooks me dinner, is she fulfilling that role of caregiver?
We have a very basic relationship. We go on hikes, we watch TV with each other, we have a codependent alcohol addiction … need I say more. It’s a happy relationship. Sure, she was my saviour once upon a time. But, the relationship has been reinvented I suppose.
Are you sure I don’t just have a standard “Messiah Complex”?
Nicely put. I will actually add, as much as I dislike psychoanalysis and most things Freudian, the ‘defensive mechanisms’ have always proved to be useful concepts to me.
Projection
Displacement
Regression (The earliest stage is oral rage - Yelling, Screaming, Anger reaction) 'I wanna cookie. Anger is the very first reaction we learn to get what we want.
Rationalization
Sublimation
Reaction Formation
Denial
Compartmentalization (my personal favorite)
Intellectualization (Another I am very aware of personally)
Don’t even imagine that I can not regress to a road raging childish maniac. The difference between me and most other people is that I fucking know I am doing it and how stupid I am acting.
EDIT: I don’t mean to imply anger is not the appropriate reaction at times. I think Aristotle said it best: “Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
Hahaha…yeah, I shake my head at myself at times…and say shit out-loud like " You’re an idiot…STFU!"
Rationalization and Compartmentalization are big on my list. Intellectualization is a subset of Rationalization for me.
Anger was the “La Brea Tar Pit” I languished in as a young man. Finally crawled out of there…became a bird…
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…(timidly raising hand)… Uh, yeah… Been there, done that. More times than I care to admit. In my defense, however (as if there is actually a defense for such ), many times it was either do the rant or send somebody to the hospital. (And sometimes it could have potentially been ME going to the hospital. )
Calilasseia spends a lot of time posting helpful accurate information here. I think you should expand on your claims that what Calilasseia said was proved false decades ago. You know, to show us you didn’t just make up a lie on the spot when you were told something you didn’t like.
), many times it was either do the rant or send somebody to the hospital. (And sometimes it could have potentially been ME going to the hospital. 
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