Thank you guys. It must be depression, I just hope everything is fine with me.
Don’t buy into a label just yet. First question is whether they are interfering with your “everyday life” because for one thing if you can manage your personal affairs reasonably well they can’t stick a diagnostic label with you.
A diagnostic label can be useful, but more likely devastating especially if wrongly applied because once there is a label it becomes a matter of being something you shouldn’t be and requiring transubstantiation – that is changing of your very substance. If you buy into one, remember for those who sell the most expensive latest and greatest drugs, a patient healed is a customer lost. So there is a huge incentive to get you to buy into perpetual “treatment” which is the Bread and Butter of Big Pharma.
For starters, feeling empty is a whole lot better than being anxious and concerned about this, that, and the other, which passes for “normal” these days and is IMO really what Jesus came to save us from since we can’t seem to help but have that judgmental mindset that Jesus taught and died to free us from.
Don’t be afraid to explore where it wants your thoughts to go. Just because you differ from someone doesn’t make you the sick one. So for starters, like I said empty is way better than anxious and fretful. If you were all bothered about stuff and get your jimmies rustled every time somebody says something you don’t like, then you would be more “normal” but more likely also more pitable IMO.
My guess is you are coherent and open to metacognition, thinking about your own thinking. That can take you a very long way, and shows already you’re less stuck than those who make things overly simplistic and almost certain to involve confirmation bias (they see what they expect to see) so they can check the box, clock out, and go home, and feel good about themselves as having “helped you”.
MS
