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
Envy
An uncomfortable feeling about what someone else has — and often a precise indicator of what you want yourself.
Theory of mind
The ability to imagine that another person has their own thoughts, intentions and feelings, different from yours.
Parenting styles
Ways of parenting that differ in how much warmth and how much demand they contain.
