Are you troubled by not having or fulfilling some “purpose” ?
- Yes
- No
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yes i feel like i wake up and dont do anything significant throughout the day just to do it again over and over every day, i want to fulfill a purpose maybe i will
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I have goals. Despite my lack of drive. I still want to achieve them. Its just harder now. I’m not giving up.
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Sometimes my purpose is small. For example it might just be to go out for a shaved ice, have an ok day, go to support group… not always do I have a major purpose. I’d hate to live like I’m waiting to die…
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I was more “goal oriented” during my younger years.
Today I am basically trying to survive.
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It doesn’t trouble me. I have little purpose at the moment. maybe one day when my parents get older, it will be my purpose to look after them.
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My purpose is to support angie and the dogs as best I can…I don’t feel troubled.
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It depends…
When I’m psychotic, yes, absolutely. My delusions are almost always grandiose in nature, at least in the beginning. I am always the chosen one, sent by forces greater than us for some special purpose. I am always special.
When I’m not blinded by delusion, like right now, I tend to hold the belief that no one was born with a purpose, because that’s up to us. You have to make your own purpose. Fine your passion, find your talent, find your place. “You set the tone.”
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I have a purpose and that’s to stay well don’t all of us have that purpose
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Absolutely. I was brought up very religious, mormon. My mother told me that an angel told her what to name me. She heard a voice. I thought i had some purpose to serve that would lead to greatness. Then i became atheist. Decided serving my country through the military would be a good way to live and die. Again, though i had a special purpose. Then I became schizophrenic. Realized my mother probably was too as she saw and heard a lot of weird sht (saw an octopus on the wall which constricted her, she thought it was the devil himself.)
Nowadays I am going down the path that the buddha laid. However I still have no idea if I have a purpose, and this bothers me greatly.
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I know what my purpose is in life. I just cant get back to it because my brain broke. Yes I am very troubled by this. It consumes me
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I have a purpose. Make friends, earn money, date, marry, kid, grow old, retirement.
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I’m actually beginning to accept that it’s okay if I don’t have a grand purpose. I used to think I had to constantly achieve and do better and greater. Now I’m realizing that staying out of the hospital, having real friends, and going to my day program are good enough for where I’m at during this point in my life. A doctor once told me I needed to discover my purpose to do better but I honestly think that lowering my expectations somewhat has made things easier.
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Man, making & maintaining real friends is so hard to do! If you can manage just that then I think you’ve got this life thing half licked. 
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Yeah, I’ve only had some real friends for the last four or five months. I had to quit thinking that all people hated me and had an agenda. I started accepting that things like compliments to me really could be genuine. But it takes a LOT of mental work! Last Saturday I had 2 people over from my day program for a homemade lasagna dinner…it was the first time I’ve had guests over in about 5 years!
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