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When depression erases the capacity for meaning

I have been depressed for so long that I cannot remember what it felt like to find anything meaningful or worthwhile.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Chronic mental illness can destroy the psychological apparatus necessary for meaning construction itself.

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“Where Are You with Logotherapy and finding meaning in suffering?”

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