Let's name it today: a diffuse feeling that something in you is missing — not a mood you can point to so much as the absence of one. Easy to confuse with two other things, so we take those apart first, because getting this right changes what we do next.
This is what we mean by emptiness: not a sharp pain, not a mood with an edge. A soft, quiet hollow. It doesn't announce a cause — it's just there, some days louder than others. It's easy to confuse with two other things, and getting the difference right changes what actually helps.
Depression usually carries a heaviness — hopelessness pressing down, energy drained out. Different mechanism, different treatment. If that sounds closer to what you feel — more weight than hollowness, more hopelessness than absence — a program built for exactly that, Lift, is one tap away. This isn't a competition for which one is worse, and it isn't a test you can fail. Plenty of people carry both; this program says so honestly and screens for it at onboarding.
Boredom is a lower-stakes cousin. It wants stimulation, and usually finding some relieves it. Chronic emptiness doesn't lift the same way, and it isn't tied to one dull afternoon — it persists past the thing that was supposed to fix it.
Notice something: emptiness rarely announces a reason. You don't need one to take it seriously, and you don't need one to start working with it. Looking for the one cause that explains it all is usually a dead end — this program doesn't ask you to find it.
From here, every day, you'll rate it — zero to five. Not to chase the number down. To see it clearly, the way you'd read a plain gauge, not an alarm. Once it's named, the next honest question is what to do about it — and the honest answer starts with what doesn't work. That's next session.