Hello, Stefan. I've been going through a challenging period in my life that began after my conversion to Catholicism.

I'm a 23-year-old young man that feels a serious emptiness and purposelessness despite spiritual growth and development within the Catholic Church.

And this is partially because I dropped out of school, out of college during the pandemic,

and have remained alone for a significant amount of time.

This has been exacerbated by having experiences of psychosis and mania, along with depression.

And it's also been encouraged by being more distant from my non-Catholic family,

and I have a lot of baggage from my childhood years.

But anyway, I'm at a crossroads in my life where I don't know exactly what I'm going to do,

and I feel a sense of anxiety and and lostness, partially

because of the mental illness and partially because I don't foresee a career in front of me

that's obvious to me right now. So all these things kind of come together and make me very worried about my future.

Well, I'm sorry to hear about these challenges.

I hope we can do something useful with regards to them.

Do you want to start off by telling me a little bit about your childhood and what happened? What's your, what's your law? What's your

background story? Yes, so I came from a family of professionals, medical professionals,

and I was really well off as a kid. So we lived in this large house,

kind of this upper middle class situation,

and I had three older siblings.

I'm the youngest by a significant amount.

So even though I had older siblings,

it was kind of like I was left alone,

and they were in college by the time I was an adolescent and really

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