Meaning
The sense that what you do leads somewhere or means something to someone.
How it shows up
The absence of meaning isn’t depression, though the two are easy to confuse. It often appears after a goal is reached, after retirement, or after losing a role that had carried the meaning until then.
What we do with it in therapy
We don’t look for meaning in big answers. As a rule it is assembled from smaller ones: what draws you, where you are useful, what you would miss if it disappeared.
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See also
Diagnosis in psychotherapy
A description of a difficulty that guides the work — not a label that says who you are.
Forgiveness
The decision to stop demanding payment for the past — but not that the act was acceptable.
Psychosomatics
Physical symptoms in which mental state plays a significant part — real, not imagined.
