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Old May 25, 2016, 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by raspberrytorte View Post
You should add an avolition definition. I had no idea what that word meant. I had to look it up and I did that yesterday but now don't remember it but my reaction was that I was pretty sure I've never experienced it before.
Ah, yes I probably should.

Lack of will, not in the depression sense because that would be more like seeing no options and possibly a lack of willpower. You still (rather) have something you don't or you wouldn't be depressed, like not being depressed. The the more you lack a will, the shorter or less severe the depression, I believe, in general.

It's being satisfied with anything. It's a great achievement to have such a lack of will, it's like the highest stage of consciousness in some religions, but it's also very dangerous: you may believe nothing matters, which isn't the same thing. That's why it's half-wise and it can lead to homelessness for example, because anything is fine.

I have some of that. Sometimes more like BP, so less so, sometimes more like SZ, or just a mixture. It needs to be in balance: one isn't better than the other.
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