By "failure to launch" I mean that part of the purpose of going away to college in our society is to develop a life outside your parents. It gives you a cut off point in time when you can say "I no longer live with these people or make my decisions based on them. I'm my own man (or woman) and take responsibility for my tribulations and credit for my successes." Making that move and making it stick (ie. not moving back, even if it's financially sensible to do so) is IMO the start of your own life - your "launch". So whenever I hear about someone living at home later in college or afterward, that's the first issue that springs to mind about why they may not be happy - they want to be their own person, but aren't. I'm also a fan of people paying for their own college, although I realize that the rise in tuition relative to salaries is making that increasingly hard.
It's good to hear you exercise. I mention that because I suffered from mild depression, and that cured it. By forced introversion, I mean that depression makes people who would be, in a non-depressed state, extroverts turn into introverts because the depression makes social interaction too hard. Since this is not congruous with how they'd like to be, it causes further problems.
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