Archetypes are real parts of the psyche. I won't go all Jungian on you, but it's a thought to ponder. We all carry symbols for light and dark. It's what you do with them [as my therapist says] that matters, and also how extreme they are.
It seems like freedom is a key issue for you - what does it mean to you, what do you do with it when you're healthy, and when you're unwell?
As an example, although maybe slightly off point, so forgive me if so, when I was very unwell with severe depression [pre diagnosis] I had a dream where a knight put a lance through my heart and killed me, and an angel brought me back to life. This was around the time where I was ignoring a gas smell, which turned out to be a major gas leak from my boiler! I did get it looked at in the end, but things could have been ... devastating. But *something* seemed to have been protecting me.
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