Last night, Whitie saw how the hopelessness came and went. She was deep in the hopelessness. Hopelessness was about feeling the patterns from her M are too big to change.
When her friend saw her as a solid self, she snapped out of the hopelessness. It was about not feeling she CAN be a self. Next time the hopelessness hits, she will try to apply that"medicine " and see if it helps.
I think most of Whitie's issues are about not feeling ABLE to be a solid self. BAD is when you think your true self is so sick, sociopathic, narcissistic, neurotic, selfish, needy, etc that you must hide it. It takes so much energy to hide it that social things are not worth it. It takes so much energy to be afraid to even look at it, yourself.
Perhaps the hopelessness was the suit Whitie had to take on when she really was hopeless as a kid and had no power of autonomy to change anything.
Maybe, that is the key. Ami