What has helped you build your sense of self? What has helped you feel like a person despite chronic feelings of emptiness? 

I have no apparent goals or dreams. I have no hobbies or intellectual interests. I don’t take pleasure in much of anything. I mostly lack hope for the future. I don’t have a religion or clear or consistent spiritual or political beliefs. 

My therapist said today I’m very focused on what I’m not, on what I don’t have, that that’s not the way forward. That I need to work on finding self. I have no idea how to do that. It doesn’t feel like there is much “self” to notice, to find.