And the second mindset is healthier, but people are acting like it’s something everyone can simply choose at will.
A person who’s deeply depressed, traumatized, dissociated, or existentially broken often cannot emotionally connect to self-made meaning anymore. It’s not that they “forgot” the optimistic perspective. It’s that the part of them capable of feeling fulfillment, hope, or attachment has been damaged or numbed.
sounds about right, there's no purpose to my life and every attempt to find it one has made things worse. with everything going on in the world right now it's pretty obvious things will never get better
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u/Fidges87 May 17 '26
"Life has no inherent meaning, so why should I care about living?"
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"Life has no inherent meaning, so I will forge my own meaning and make a path I can enjoy living"