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How to make decisions when you question the self

My therapist keeps asking me what I want but after reading about non-self I'm not even sure there's a 'me' that wants anything and it's making every decision feel impossible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Intellectual understanding of non-self can create paralysis when practical life still requires the conventional self to function.

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