Defining Characteristics
A person with this diagnosis may:
- Having an enhanced desire for hope
- Feel that there is meaning and purpose to their life;
- Have a sense of peace or serenity;
- Surrender love;
- Be forgiving towards themself, and request forgiveness of others;
- Request forgiveness from others;
- Have a satisfying philosophy of life;
- Experience joy, courage, or heightened coping;
- Pray or meditate;
- Connect with others;
- Provide service to others;
- Experience connections with nature;
- Experience connections with or a desire to create art, music, or literature, particularly of a religious or spiritual nature;
- Experience a connection with a power greater than oneself;
- Report mystical experiences; or
- Participate in religious activities.
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