Lots of people say they have a void inside of them, and people deal with it in different ways. Some people do drugs. Others try to fill the void with food. Still others jump from relationship to relationship or have meaningless and unsatisfying sex with strangers looking for something to fill the void. . . Just because LT isn't going around sleeping with strangers or shooting up heroin doesn't actually mean she feels less pain than someone who does cope with the void that way. In not "pathologizing," I think there can be a risk of minimizing the issue.