Shekhar Natarajan

I'm going back and forth.

I don't belong there and I don't belong here.

So who do I belong to?

And so that sense of belonging is so critical in the formative stages in life.

Yeah.

And so the role of the formative

stages of your life like how important is that from depth psychology perspective so like you know your experience is very unique and I'm sure like you know that's why it made you like metrosexual like you know you can live here and you can experience like London which is like the heart like melting pot of all cultures yeah right and you can appreciate it but if you go back to the formative stages how much of the formative stages really help you become who you are as a person

Yeah, you cannot deduce that.

So this topic is so close to me and to my heart in many ways, Dr. Aaron, primarily because my brother has bipolarity.

And I think I have bipolarity to a certain degree, I don't know, it's not really as profound as my brother is and others in the family.

I guess I don't demonstrate any of those characteristics as profound as my brother does.

like what we believe to be true, or at least my brother believes to be true because he's a psychologist, he's cognitive and clinical psychologist.

He has a dual doctorate.

It's like ironical that a guy with bipolarity is the guy who has a psychology degree, right?

The early days when my parents got married, my mother was always, she was very young, she was like 17 years old when she got married.

And the reason why they got married is because my father wanted to take care of three of my aunts, like my mother's cousins, who got orphaned.

Because their father and mother took care of my dad.

Okay.

So it was kind of like, you know, generationally we were trying to take care of the family.

And so my mother was so young and like, you know, she would cry and like, you know, when my brother was pregnant and so on and so forth, it's sort of like, you know, he grew up with this emotion of like extreme emotions of happiness and sadness and happiness and sadness and the volatility that comes with it.